Saturday, December 3, 2011

The Plus Points Of High Resolution Imaging

By Adriana Noton


Graphic design specialists, printers and photographers are forever infuriated by the steady stream of people that come into their stores and offices and present a grainy, poor quality image, and ask them to increase it to a significantly larger size. They are unaware of the concept - and the need, in this case - for high resolution imaging in the source material to produce anything near to a decent product. They have been misinformed.

JPGs and GIFs do not expand without compromising on image quality. Because of this ignorance about how the images people view every day on their computer, there is a false belief that people can blow up and enlarge images to epic proportions without suffering any problems with blurriness or pixellation. That is simply not true.

Low pixel quality is just about passable on the internet and on screens in small sizes. However, the second that such pictures get enlarged - to go in magazines, on calendars or simply to be printed to go into a photo album - problems begin to occur. There are unsightly blemishes on the pictures, called artefacts, which become problematic. They can obscure faces, buildings, and generally make what were probably perfect photographs on screen appear to be severely troubled.

Worryingly, this problem is unlikely to go away as long as people continue to take pictures on poor quality domestic digital cameras. The scores of amateur photographers that take the majority of images are unaware of just how unusable their pictures are. They need a dramatic rethinking of the quality of photographs they take.

It is akin to preparing a meal. The likelihood of the taste of this meal surpassing anything other than average expectations is unlikely if people are using foul tasting ingredients. They need to be of a suitable quality going into the oven in order to produce something coming out which is seen as tasty.

People need to ensure that the source material is of a decent quality. One of the best ways to ensure this is by hiking up their resolutions when they take photographs. This way, the bigger, higher quality images produced can be adapted more easily and quickly when they want to be printed out.

Just like the cooking metaphor, people need to ensure that there is a base quality below which their ingredients do not fall. Similarly, they need to ensure that the pictures or graphics they produce to be printed are of a sufficient quality. If this does not happen, then they will find that the end result which comes back from the printers is not as good. The better the quality the better the end result.

High resolution In vivo Imaging is the only way to really ensure that the best quality end result is reached. With anything less than a brilliant lot of source material, the ability for professional printers and graphic designers is seriously limited. They cannot turn a sow's ear into a silk purse, as the popular old saying goes.




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