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[USER=85343]Bluie[/USER]: "I will experiment at 260 and 280 resolution..."


I'm sorry, but please don't spend too much of your time on such experiments. Unfortunately, tweaking the PPI value won't make any improvement whether you look at the result on a screen, or whether you have your photo store print it out to a size that you specify in your order.


Part of the reason for the confusion that's rampant in this area is the the word, "resolution" has two different, but somewhat related meanings, and it's easy to confuse the two.  For example, in most of the post in this thread, the word "resolution" has been used as Adobe's synonym for PPI (pixels per inch).  This is technically correct.


However, PPI is certainly not the concept that most people are thinking of when they say something like, "The resolution of that picture is high (or low)." 


What people usually mean is that in a high resolution photo you can see the leaves on the trees over on the next hill, whereas in a low resolution image of the same scene (ie, same magnification, same light, same croping, etc.) you can't make out individual leaves, but only the branches on those trees, and this remains true whether you make a billboard sized print out of it and then re-photograph the billboard with a microscope -- you just aren't going to be able to resolve individual leaves if the initial resolution of the image is too low.


What we have been telling you is that the resolution (common usage of the term) of your starting image is too low. It's pixel dimensions are simply too low to resolve a lot of different small objects in the image, so if you blow it up, no matter what PPI setting you use, you still won't resolve any finer detail.


HTH,


Tom M


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