Issue with pixelated pictures when using Place

[artfuturo]

Hi

I am new to AP, so please forgive me if I am asking a stupid question here. However, I spent quite some time researching the issue and haven't found any solutions to my problem. 

The background:

• Version of AP:  1.6.5.135
• Windows:  10, patched to 1809
• Image source:  Olympus 64MB high-res RAW -> DxO Photolab 2, exported TIFF CMYK/8, 9248 x 6916, 300dpi, 24 bit, uncompressed -> this is a 186MB hi-res image
• Image parameters in AP:  See attached image of 'New...'
• Document type: Glossy high-res sales material

Issue:

• If I place the high-resolution image into my AP document via the Place command, scale it down to the correct size, it looks very pixelated. I tried all sorts of combinations of 'New ...' and different import file types (e.g. high quality .jpg, etc.), but the problem persists regardless. If I look at the original TIFF file with the Windows Photo Viewer for example and zoom in all the way, the quality of the image is very good. 

This is driving me crazy. Can anybody help. Where do I go wrong? I cannot believe that this otherwise great program would artificially make high-res images look worse than they actually are. 

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Phil 

[firstdefence]

Welcome to the forum artfuturo, firstly I wish everyone would post like you have, so thank you for that, secondly have you tried making a copy of the original tiff, resizing the image and then placing the image or copying/pasting it into the document?

 

[R C-R]

14 hours ago, artfuturo said:

If I place the high-resolution image into my AP document via the Place command, scale it down to the correct size, it looks very pixelated.

How are you scaling it down? If you leave it as an "(Image)" layer & just use the Move Tool's bounding box handles to resize it, it should retain all its pixels. If its pixel dimensions are much larger that the document's dimensions, you may need to zoom in fairly far to see this. You might also want to open Preferences > Performance & see how "View Quality" is set -- "Bilinear (Best Quality)" may look better than "Nearest Neighbor (Fastest)."

If that doesn't help, do you see this with other hi-res placed images or just this one?

[artfuturo]

3 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Welcome to the forum artfuturo, firstly I wish everyone would post like you have, so thank you for that, secondly have you tried making a copy of the original tiff, resizing the image and then placing the image or copying/pasting it into the document?

 

Hi firstdefence, thanks for your response. I used to work in IT support for years and still appreciate how difficult it is for others to 'guess' what the users problem could be with next to no background information :-). 

Funnily, I tried exactly what you suggest after my post because I found another post in this forum that described my problem. I then played a little with bilinear/bicubic resize/export. I haven't come to a final conclusion yet if the problem is completely gone, but I can already say that things a way better. 

[firstdefence]

Nice to know the flow is going in the positive direction