The fact that the DEFAULT picture viewer in Windows, Photos, behaves this way means that anytime a user is viewing images on a Windows computer directly from a file, the photo is blurry and otherwise not optimallyĭisplayed. This is a big problem for the Windows platform.
Windows Photo Viewer, zoomed most of the way It is especially evident around the character and the icons and text. Photos, unzoomed, 956 x 536 on a 2560 x 1440 screen (Not uploaded directly into this post because Microsoft compresses the images.) The third image is the same screenshot, zoomed in, but in Windows Photo Viewer. Second image is the same screenshot in Photos but zoomed in. The first image is a screencap within the default Photos program and it looks crisp because there is no zoom - it is a 956 x 536 image on a 2560 x 1440 screen. Specifically, please look at the character, the icons, and text. The following images are different views of the same screenshot of the pixel art game I work with pixel art and gameĭevelopment and this issue was the first thing that I noticed on Windows 10 back in 2015. It is much more prevalent on images with sharp geometry. Perhaps Microsoft can provide a 'nearest neighbor'-like interpolation like they did in Windows Photo Viewer. This is pretty clearly an image zoom interpolation issue. Photos app often displays sharp images as somewhat blurry (includes example)
