Damien Symonds

Is this anywhere close?

Before attempting any colour work, it goes without saying that you need to do the blur. https://www.damiensymonds.net/2010/06/blurring-background-false-dof.html

Yay! PLEASE don't wait any longer to step up to the Raw and Levels Classes. They'll rock your world.

If it's only Bridge, maybe the solution is to turn on the thing about "monitor size previews" in Bridge's preferences.

So with that knowledge, I need you to examine the problem a bit further. In what program/s did the files look blurry to you? Only Bridge?

You've seen, I trust, that the files aren't actually blurry?

Gosh, how big are they?

Dana! Chill, for heaven's sake. This focus is excellent.

Well, the first step is for me to take a look at one of the "blurry" files, and one of the "good" ones. Please send them to me via https://spaces.hightail.com/uplink/BellePhotography

Yes there is, but I can't find it, since his website is under maintenance. Brian, you'll have to provide your own beer link

Yes.

Yes, I agree with your analysis.

Excellent.

That's excellent focus.

Yes, definitely. Oh, not instead of. As well as.

That's good news.

Is it doing this with every photo you try? Old and new?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2015/09/black-boxes-and-other-weird-behaviour.html

There is no need to EVER have the histogram panel open. Ever.

Great! Then everything sounds exactly right. Just concentrate on freeing up your drive.

Do you have all the files in the same folder? If so, what is the size of the folder on your hard drive?

Look again. Mine isn't the Histogram panel, is it?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/what2buy_cal.html

Are they all black-and-white jpeg files you're placing?

This is still very very very very very very very very bad. You're darned lucky your computer even starts up properly. Brian says you should have at least 1/3rd of your C drive free. You MUST start clearing up space. Don't do any other editing until you have done so. You're in very dangerous territory. This is better, but still not the 1/3rd that Brian recommends. Do you literally mean Place?