In release 20080814, we added a new setting
image.original_optimized
This setting, forces images to display at their full size if they fit within the Stage dimensions. This will create a clearer image with less "resizing artifacts", but it may cause overlapping of controls and missing descriptions because the minimal margin settings are overrun.
We made this setting because I know many users dislike their images being resized, and this setting addresses that issue directly with, but as a compromise solution. Speaking for myself(and viewing from my 1680x1050 screen), I often found that images are often scaled down just a little (~90%) just to fit within the margins. I found that I would prefer to the image at 100% in nice, crisp quality, although the controls then often overlap the photo.
This is an experimental setting we added that is turned OFF by default. Enable it by going to image.image.original_optimized in your theme config, and set it to enabled.
Keep in mind this setting ONLY scales sets images at their original size(100%) if they fit within the STAGE. If the original size breaks the stage, then image is instead resized to fit within margins.
Tell me what you think -