Good is the new Best

[Marty Knapp]

I may be losing my mind but I just discovered something weird. I'm 
mostly using LC 6.6.5 these days and I have an app that I've struggled 
to get good looking icons (many of them are fairly small). I was making 
them in Photoshop at 2x size and after importing to LC, setting the 
resizeQuality to "best" and scaling them down. But they didn't look that 
great. I've had a few customers complain about the lack of "retina" 
quality so I finally bit the bullet and picked up a refurbished MacBook 
Pro with a 13" Retina display so that I was no longer working blind. To 
my surprise I found a couple of my icons looked great and some not. The 
ones that looked best turned out to have had their resizeQuality set to 
"good". The ones set to "best" didn't look nearly as good. (I know, this 
is starting to sound like "Who's on first!") So I looped through all the 
images and reset the resizeQuality to "good" and now they all look nice 
and sharp on Retina. But isn't this backward? Curious, I opened the 
project in LC 6.7 rc4 to see if this "bug" was fixed but it seems to be 
the same. On a non-retina display "good" and "best" look about the same 
(and not all that great with small icons).

As an aside, I also opened some of my apps, built with LC 5.0.2, on my 
new Retina MacBook and they look terrible - even the text looks bad - 
even the text in system windows (print dialog etc) - very pixelated. The 
same stacks opened with LC 6.6.5 look fine.

Anybody else seeing this?

Maybe "good" is the new "best!"

Happy new year to everyone,
Marty Knapp