images look different in different software?

Hey all,
I have both adobe photoshop CS2 and ACDSEE. After editing my images in photoshop they appear how i want them and look pretty sharp. Then after i save the image and view the same image in ACDSEE it doesnt look half as sharp. I am viewing them at the same exact size. Any idea whats going on?

Don't trust sharpness unless you're viewing at exactly 100% (pixel-for-pixel).

If you're sharpening in Photoshop, but not viewing at 100%, it is probably not as sharp as you think.

I changed the gamma setting in ACDSEE to 1.0 so that it matches photoshop for color and brightness. I am not sure if this gamma setting will affect the appearance of sharpness.

troyer16 wrote in post #3563978
Hey all,
I have both adobe photoshop CS2 and ACDSEE. After editing my images in photoshop they appear how i want them and look pretty sharp. Then after i save the image and view the same image in ACDSEE it doesnt look half as sharp. I am viewing them at the same exact size. Any idea whats going on?

Hello troyer16;

I have the exact opposite (almost...)...

I always review the results of my work in ACDSee, because I get a much better resolution in ACDSee than I do in Adobe PSE r4.

I have no idea at all why that should be, but that's the way it is on my PC.

I guess it must have something to do with interpretation of colour profiles...

Cheers;

Lee

snake0ape wrote in post #3571725
I changed the gamma setting in ACDSEE to 1.0 so that it matches photoshop for color and brightness. I am not sure if this gamma setting will affect the appearance of sharpness.

No, it won't.
AFAIK ACDSee is not color managed, so you'll have a hard time to get it to display files correctly.

For sharpness: Like said, compare at 100%