Hi folks, hope someone can help me here, have been on the Mac for the past few months and love it, my problem is that all images have started to look blocky especially in any web browser I open. I have done the PC thing and set my resolution to 1920 x 1200. Sorry should have said I'm on an iMac 24". I can't find any other settings to change. Please help I do a lot of design work on my Mac and need the quality to preview how my work is going, my mac is about 10 months old.

Thank you Darkside if you can help.

Sorry just added this high quality photo, can you notice artifacts around the image, this is the same in all photos.

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/1198/po...24610889le0.jpg

Can you take a screenshot?

Or try asking here: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1114

Just added a high quality pic groon, can you notice the artifacts around the photo, this is the same with all photos. Thanks for the help.

I don't see anything wrong, other than normal jpg compression artifacts (around the edge of the leash, for example) Edit: and some graininess.

If you're the one doing the images, you might try using PhotoZoom Pro or Genuine Fractals for your jpg's, they're a higher quality than PS's built-in engine (unless it's been changed for CS4).

If you really think there's something wrong with your browsers, take an image and make a .jpg of it, compare it to the original to make sure it's good enough for you, upload it to photobucket or someplace similar, then view it side-by-side in a web browser next to your original and see if it looks any different than the one you uploaded.

That's just my €2. I'm sure there are professionals spinning in their graves at the poor quality of your sample and my failure to recognize it.

thanks will give that a go groon.

are these images directly from a camera? are you modifying them in any way after receiving (odd word i must say) the originals? groon is likely right and the problem is in the compression (jpeg is good if done correctly)

No Mazuki, all images I look at on screen have some form of pixilation on parts of them. The same images on a pc screen are fine, could it be the siz of my screen (24in)

Nope, I have a 24" set to 1920x1200 and good images show up perfectly. There are a lot of not-so-good images on the web though, so if you really want to see a good image to judge by, I just uploaded a color test chart for you:

http://www.mediafire.com/?dzzyycktwej

It's a zipped .tif file with no compression, and if this looks bad, you DO have a problem.

i agree, these monitors are of extreme quality, just below that of what they recently released for video work, you will notice EVERYTHING, especially in jpeg photos :)