Resizing photos

Nothingie SG

If a photo is taken at high resolution then resize on the PC to a smaller size, is it the same as taking it with the camera set to a low resolution?

www SG

not what my experience tells me.

the former will look better.

Båseline SG

Not necessarily.

As far as I know, the hi-res format in the Digital Cameras relates to the picture size. And by default, everything else is based on the 72D.P.I resolution.

And depends how much the camera has a preset Low resolution format. The resizing you did may still be of a better quality than the preset low resolution format in the camera.

Say Camera's lo-res format is 800 by 600 pixels with 72dpi, and you resize ya hi-res one down to 1024 by 768 from 1152 by 870... your resize is still larger. So it all depends how lo-res u wan ya downsize Pict to be.

jOhO SG

as far as i know, all digital cameras record the amt of pixels on the CCD and that's fixed. so a 3.2mp cam will record 3.2mp worth of picture, it's wat size the STORE it at. so if u want to take 1mp pics, the cam will still take 3.2mp, and store at 1mp by resizing in the cam.

so it really depends on the algorithm of the cam vs the algorithm of the software on ur computer for the downsampling. which algorithm is better? i wouldn't have a clue. but this is the logic i take:

a 3.2mp cam can cost as low as 400. photoshop costs 900 (or more) and is a software for doing photos and digital imaging. i would rather trust photoshop, than the cam, where the optics and ccd contribute most of the cost.

but of course that's just my views. Wink