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Has published a photo on your computer and when he went to print, it was just a small image on the page? Have you ever emailed a digital photo to your mother, but the image file size was so large that your inbox rejected the embargo?

Photo Resolution

A pixel (short for picture element) is the name of the tiny dots that make up an image and the resolution is a measure of how many pixels fit in an inch.

Our televisions, computer monitors and even digital photographs are filled with pixels - thousands and thousands of them all crammed together so closely that tricks the human brain in the thinking of these little items are a soft image.

The greater the number of pixels of an image, the smoother the picture looks. On the contrary, if the number of pixels is too low, the image quality suffers. When the number of pixels is so low that you can see the jagged edges, you have a pixelated image.

Digital camera images have a number of pixels high, while most computer screens at home have a low number of pixels, usually less than 100 pixels in an inch. Displaying the first to the second possibility, an image that appears much larger than your computer screen. Digital cameras capture images in high resolution for quality prints. But an email to this large image file will have many megabytes of data and e-mail clients will reject it.