Therefore Apple sets at default half-resolution screen at 2560 x 1440. On my iMac 5K, if I set resolution to native 5120 x 2880 resolution, photos will show at 1:1 in non-Retina-aware photo viewer such as Xee but text, menu, button and bar etc are too small to view comfortably. Sorry it's a bit of confuse to read but I believe I understand what you meant as I also use retina screen with my iMac 5K. This all sounds complex, and is, you just have to have experience of retina screens to get these scaling issuing. This was a bit of nightmare, especially here at DPR in the 'Gallery' 100% loupe views, but now as everyone has adjusted to the peculiarities of retina, knowing the view size of retina on non-retina has settled down. If you have a retina screen set to 'more space' - which is actually closer to the native pixel resolution of the retina screen, then take a screen-shot, it will appear much larger on a non-retina screen. If one has a retina screen set to default - which looks low res, a screenshot shown on a normal non-retina screen looks pixel to pixel 1:1. Um.you know that the screen has nothing to do with the data grab right?Īs soon as I started to use Apple retina screens where resolution can be 'scaled', at default resolution everything on the screen looks too large, when set to 'more space' it looks 'normal' for the size of the screen, and still actual retina pixels are still so small they can't be seen - as a pixel. those grabbed from a retina screen, hope 100% is actually 100%!

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