MX

Photo display quality
Web Designer MX Premium can display photos in one of five useful quality levels. The top two settings
smooth the screen pixels so avoiding visible pixels or rough sections along the edges (anti-aliasing).
Change the quality level using the Quality entry in the Window
menu.
Very High
Quality
(default)
Displays images using bicubic sampling. This displays images
at the best quality, particularly for large hi-res images that are
scaled down or zoomed out a lot.
High Quality
Anti-aliasing on, but images are rendered faster and at lower
quality.
Full Color
No anti-aliasing, thus showing individual pixels. This can be
useful when you're zoomed in and you need to clearly see
the separate image pixels. The downside is that images
generally look poor when reduced or enlarged resulting in
clearly visible pixelation and jagged "staircase" edges,
especially if you rotate the image.
Outline with
blend steps
Is particularly useful for seeing outlines of the various steps of
a blend. Blends are not supported in Web Designer MX
Premium but imported .xar files could contain blends.
Outline
Only object outlines are shown. This is useful for finding and
selecting objects that are difficult to see due to other objects
in front of or behind them.
There is an additional control that allows you to stop all image smoothing or anti-aliasing on images that
are scaled up or zoomed in. In other words, instead of a smoothed image, you see all the pixels when
zoomed in. Open the Bitmap Gallery
and right click on the image and select "properties". In the dialog un-check the "Smooth when scaled up"
option. Now, no matter what viewing quality you select the image (and all copies) will always show the
un-smoothed pixels when enlarged or zoomed in.
Note: If you use the Photo Tool sharpen / blur control then images have to be displayed at maximum
quality. So if you think the viewing quality has stopped working, it's almost certainly because you have
sharpened or blurred the image with the Photo Tool
.
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