I think that when Photo Gallery goes into SlideShow mode (click the big
square button at center bottom) it drops down to a very low resolution to
display the images. This has obvious problems. If you double click an image
whilst in the thumbnail mode it keeps your current resolution, and thus does
a much better job of viewing images, at least for me anyway.
I think that the SlideShow mode is designed for viewing images on a device
like a TV, using a '10 foot interface' (as MS like to call it). It's not
designed to be used sat at the desktop (a '2 foot interface').
Oh, and I agree, it sucks.
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"Simon Cobb" <Simon
Cobb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm running Vista Ultimate RTM on a high end system. I just loaded 60-odd
> JPG images taken with a Nikon D40 DSLR onto my PC and viewed them through
> WPG. Given this was a brand new camera and these were the first images I
> had
> shot, I was horrified with their quality and initially assumed my camera
> was
> faulty. The images were terribly over-saturated, unsharp and noisy. I
> then
> opened the images for editing in Microsoft Digital Image Suite. Lo and
> behold, the images are sharp and properly saturated.
>
> While I'm relieved that my camera is performing correctly, what on earth
> is
> going on with WPG to cause such appalling display characteristics?
>
> Incidentally, I saw similarly poor results when I viewed the images in the
> new Slide Show viewer.
>
> Anyone else seen similar results? Is there a fix?
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon