In simple terms, high resolution photos are best for printing and enlarging, and web-sized photos are best for computer use (website, social media, email, digital documents). If you are unsure of what you need, Riverland Commercial Photography can help you decipher where you need high resolution files and where to use your web-sized photo files. You can even resize a screenshot or shrink a hi-res photo to help your blog or web page load faster. If you were to print a photo using a web-sized file you could print a 6×4″ photo but anything larger will usually lose detail and clarity. Use our photo size editor to quickly resize a photo for Facebook, a profile image for LinkedIn, a banner for Twitter, or a thumbnail for YouTube. To ensure that a photo loads quickly, takes less storage space, and can still retain detail, digital photos are resized to fit standard monitor resolutions. The resolution of monitors is increasing as technology changes, and it’s becoming more common to hear talk about 4K and 8K monitors, but for the majority of users 10 are currently the standard resolutions for monitors. The more dots or pixels per inch, the clearer and more detailed the photo will be.Ĭonversely, when a photo is used on the internet for a website or for social media, it only needs to have as many pixels in it as the monitor it’s being viewed on. Whilst the two terms are both types of resolution and often the terms are interchanged, they are actually different. Multiplying the two figures together gives us the second way this is commonly stated, namely as megapixels. So, an image resolution of 6000 x 4000 tells us that the image measures 6000 pixels in width and 4000 pixels in height. Pixelsare the tiny little points that are the building blocks of a digitalphoto, whereas dotsindicate the number of dots found within a one-inch line of a print. Image resolution is typically expressed as a horizontal x vertical measurement. Why?…Because the photo is not ‘hi-res’.ĭigital resolution is measured in PPI (pixels per inch) and print resolution is measured in DPI (dots per inch). Whilst it’s an easy task for the sign writer to save the photo from the internet, the quality of the photo will not be suitable for printing on a large sign. A common reply is “Just use one off our website” or “Here’s one we used on our social media”. When you capture a digital image, via a digital camera, your phone or a scanner, it’s measured in pixels which is an abbreviation of means ‘picture element’ and it is the smallest unit of a digital image. When a business has a nice new sign made for the front of their shop and they want photos printed on to it, one of the questions the sign writer will ask is whether the business has any ‘hi-res’ photos they can use. Both image size and image resolution refer to how an image is measured.
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