CS3 VS ZoomBrowser IQ

[zmikers]

I was doing some work for a friend's restaurant, shooting some food for her menu. I was browsing through the photos using Canon's ZoomBrowser and then uploading the pics into CS3 (RAW files) when I noticed something very interesting. I compared the same image in ZoomBrowser and in CS3's RAW editing window and noticed that the image in ZoomBrowser was much sharper, clearer and with much more "pop." Any insight into why this must be? Does ZoomBrowser add it's own settings when being viewed? Is this a case of CS3 losing IQ or ZoomBrowser adding it? Just something strange that I noticed.

[Visual Reality]

Zoombrowser has a better preview because programs like Photoshop and Windows Picture & Fax Viewer don't resample the image after zooming. In Photoshop & others, you'll get about the same result if you do a resize rather than zoom in/out.

CS4 fixes this though.

[zmikers]

Zoombrowser has a better preview because programs like Photoshop and Windows Picture & Fax Viewer don't resample the image after zooming. In Photoshop & others, you'll get about the same result if you do a resize rather than zoom in/out.

CS4 fixes this though.

So this is only because the image I am viewing in the RAW editing window has been zoomed in. Once I open the image in the regular CS3 editing window everything should be fine. That makes sense then. It had me a bit worried. Cheers for the explanation:D