Enhancing Images

Output Size and Resolution

The Size/Resolution palette is where you specify the final (“output”) size of the portion of the image that will be saved when Save or Save as… is selected from the File menu. The choice of settings in the Size/Resolution palette depends on how you intend to use the image and the amount of storage space you have available. Some examples are given below.

If the image will be used in printing or desktop publishing…

…size and resolution will be dictated by the resolution of the output device and the physical size of the image when printed, measured in centimeters or points rather than pixels.

If you intend to use the image on a web page…

…specify output size in pixels, keeping file size to a minimum for rapid downloads. Resolution in this case is not an issue.

Adjusting Size and Resolution

1 Display the Size/Resolution palette Select the tool palette containing the Size/Resolution palette from the View menu (the default location for the Size/ Resolution palette is Tool Palette 1) and click the triangle at the top left corner of the palette.

2 Make changes to options as described below

Keep the crop: When Keep the crop is selected, you can use the mouse to adjust the size and position of the current crop as desired. If you enter a new value for height or width in the Size/Resolution palette, the remaining dimension changes automatically to maintain

aconstant height-width aspect ratio, and scale is adjusted to reflect the new dimensions (scale can not be increased beyond 200%). If the image can not be output at the cur- rent resolution using the new dimensions, resolution will automatically be adjusted to an appropriate value. This option is useful when you want to specify height and width after selecting a crop.

RAW Image Size (D1X Only)

The D1x is designed to record images at 3,008 × 1,960 pixels (six megapixels). Image quality will not necessarily increase when RAW images are output at a size of 4,016 × 2,616 pixels (ten megapixels, equivalent to the dimensions of the CCD).

NEF Images

When an image is saved in NEF format, the entire image will be saved together with information on resolution and the size and dimensions of the current crop.

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