Where do the jaggies come from in the images on my monitor?
This one is often a very simple issue, but can be quite annoying. Most of the time, there is nothing at all wrong with the picture itself, but the problem is the way the image is being viewed. The most common cause of jaggies, or that stepped look on diagonal lines when they should really look smooth and straight, is that the image is being viewed at the wrong size. To avoid or at least lessen the incidence of jaggies, view the image at 100% or at an even fraction or multiple of 100%. Viewing at 100% should provide the best quality result, but 25%, 50% and 200% should also largely avoid the jaggies, certainly when compared with odd sizes like 33.33%, 66.67% or even 150%. If you let a computer program fit a large picture to your screen, you will almost certainly end up with an unfavourable zoom that creates the jaggies. In PhotoShop, Ctrl – and Ctrl + will let you quickly zoom out or in to fixed presets, including 25%, 50%, 100% and 200%. Some programs are better than others at producin
