Some cameras, though, offer you the chance to leave your photos uncompressed on the camera, in what’s called TIFF format. Most digital cameras capture photos in the JPEG format. While there are a zillion graphical formats known to computer-kind, there are really only two, besides JPEG, that you, the digital photographer, need to know about. JPEG is the world’s most popular photo file format, because even though it’s compressed to occupy a lot less space, the visual quality is still very high.īut JPEGs aren’t the only format you’ll run across, especially once you start editing your photos, which is covered in Part 3 of this book. Just about every digital camera on earth saves photos as JPEGįiles. If you try that same maneuver with a picture that comes from a 2 megapixel camera, you’ll end up with a photo filled with unsightly pixels.
Just crop out all the boringīackground and keep just the juicy parts (you’ll learn aboutĬropping in Chapters 9 and 10). No problem-if your camera’s got a lot of megapixels under the hood. Say you’ve taken a great shot of your kids, but they occupy just a smidgen of the overall picture. The other important advantage that a camera with multiple megapixels gives you is the ability to create high-quality prints of select portions of your photo. But these figures provide a rough guide to getting the highest quality prints. You may be able to print larger sizes than those listed here and be perfectly happy with them. Number of different color cartridges your printer has, among other things. Print-including lens quality, file compression,Įxposure, camera shake, paper quality, and the These are extremely crude guidelines, by the way.
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