Cover Flow Blurry

Same here! I hope Apple is aware of this and working on an update for it. When I first saw this on my cover flow, I thought it screwed up my photos.

I always thought Cover Flow looked pretty low res in iTunes, but looked fine on my iPod. I did not notice a change between Tiger and Leopard.

Yeah, this is annoying. I tried deleting the thumbnails manually, but Cover Flow didn't rebuild them or they just rebuilt the low-res thumbnails. This sort of reduces the usefulness of Cover Flow.

Yep cover flow does have its problems and bugs i'd have to say.
I find that if i scroll through some files it looks a little blurry, when the image stops and then it takes a while to focus and then the image looks fine.
What also bugs me is that sometimes it seems the image thumbnail is a little small in comparison to the space cover flow itself occupies.
Hope Apple fixes some of these in the next update.

*the problem are the thumbnails!*
delete the thumbnail of a jpg and coverflow will render them nice and sharp. most of the times. sometimes at least. as soon as a image has an embedded icon/thumbnail (like every file created with photoshop as example), coverflow does not look any further and just blows up the 128px thumbs. most of the times. may i ask: who wrote this code? it does things sometimes, not always, but most of the times it does it badly.

it could be a good "initial" thing to quickly display the icons first, then go deeper and render it based on the actual content! every time!

buzzlulu (thanks Gregg!!) found a very reliable solution. Download CocoThumbX.

under its settings select "remove the thumbnails" (from folder). this forces

Finder to recreate the thumbnails information for Coverflow to work right!.

while deleting a thumbnail/icon (by hand or with cocothumbx) might be a quick solution for photos, i expect coverflow to handle this correctly for me. when dealing with thousands of photographs, automatic export from aperture, batch processing in photoshop/bridge etc, i shouldn't have to deal with thumbnails, should i?

coverflow simply isn't where it should be. i also find it strange that quicklook and coverflow seam to use different algorithms to render files. try an adobe illustrator file for example. the finder doesn't show the content as icon (in a folder), coverflow renders the content/artboard correctly, quicklook only displays the oversized icon. what the...?

I agree that stripping off all previews and thumbs isn't a realistic solution for most large image libraries. Cover Flow should accommodate low-resolution thumbnails and medium-resolution previews, ignoring them in favor of its high-resolution previews where appropriate.

File-specific previews and thumbs are just too useful in Adobe's and Graphic Converter's image browsers for Apple to expect users to abandon them wholesale....

Has anyone noticed fonts not showing correctly in word documents through coverflow and quicklook

most of my docs have reverted to courier in coverflow and the layout is all over the place

I mean really Apple, ***? This seems like a glaring oversight in one of the showcase features in Leopard. I have beautiful 8MP pictures taken with a Canon 30 that are pixelated like uber-magnified icons.

Strange thig is some of the pictures look perfectly clear in cover flow while others are really blurry. Don't know why that is. May be I edited teh blurry ones in Photoshop.

For me I find that it takes a while to render the thumbnails of photos and movies I have.
It takes a while to focus aswell. Will be adding more RAM and i'll check out how coverflows speed & blurry-ness turns out after.

In coverflow my jegs and PSD files are not displayed correctly. They are not blurry but pixelated.
My raw files display correctly which makes me suspicious that it is related to Photoshop.
Marc

Cover Flow renders some images just fine and other are very bitmappy -- even though all the pictures were taken with the same camera and at a similar resolution

With an additional 2Gb RAM added to my system, i've noticed that cover flow renders the images a tiny bit faster and I don't really see a blur & focusing anymore for any of the images.
The thumbnails come up crisp.
What annoys me is how bland text files can look though.

I have a relatively-large folder of images that I haven't added to iPhoto. They all had custom thumbnails, which made browsing them via Cover Flow quite disgusting.

If you want, make a quick run to the Terminal, and use these two commands, which will strip an entire folder's worth of JPEG, GIF, and PNG files of their thumbnails:

cd ~/Pictures/or wherever_your_images_maybe/
sips --rotate 360 *

After this, Cover Flow started to actually read the files, and now I can flip through my images beautifully.