Image Resolution And Print Quality

In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to look at how image resolution affects print quality.Have you ever downloaded an image from the internet and then printed it, only to get results that were, well, less than you expected? The image looked great on your computer screen, but when you printed it, it either printed at the size of a postage stamp or it printed at a decent size but looked blurry or "blocky"? The culprit is image...

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mage Quality: Image Resolution, Pixel Dimensions and Document Size

Pixel DimensionsHere's a photo I took one day while strolling through a park. I saw this little guy (or girl, who knows) posing for me on the flowers and happened to have my camera handy. My camera, by the way, is an 8MP camera, and the reason why I'm telling you this will be explained shortly.Obviously, the photo you're seeing above is a much smaller version of the photo, since the actual-size version would be too large to fit on the screen. Let's...

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RGB and Color Channels in Photoshop Explained

Did you know that Photoshop is color blind?When I say "color blind", I don't mean it has a little trouble distinguishing between certain shades of green and purple. I mean it's completely and totally blind when it comes to color. All Photoshop sees is black and white. Well, black, white, and a lot of shades of gray in between, but that's it. The world's most powerful image editor, an industry standard among photographers, designers, and virtually...

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Benefits Of Working With 16-Bit Images In Photoshop

What Does The Term "8-Bit" Mean?You may have heard the terms 8-bit and 16-bit before, but what do they mean? Whenever you take a picture with a digital camera and save it in the JPEG format, you're creating a standard "8-bit" image. The JPEG format has been around for a long time and as digital photography and even Photoshop itself continue to advance, the limitations of the JPEG format are becoming more and more apparent. For...

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Seeing The Difference With JPEG Compression

It's a fact of life when it comes to working with digital photos and images. Sometimes, we need to compress them to make our file sizes smaller, especially if we're emailing them to a client or to family members, or posting them on a website. Since the jpeg file format is still the format of choice for digital photos, even though it's been around for more than 15 years, compressing images usually means using jpeg compression, which does a great job of...

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