Looking For Stock Photos For Website/Blog

[dbluez]

Thanks Sledger....still learning!!

db

[gwpriester]

Vector images are defined by outlines of shapes and can scale up or down to almost any size without loss of sharpness or quality.

Photos are bitmaps which are like a grid of tiny squares. Each square (pixel) is a solid color and a fixed size. So as you scale a bitmap image larger, the pixels also get larger. Windows screen resolution is 96dpi. So as your image resolution gets smaller, the pixel size gets larger. As long as the image resolution is 96dpi or larger your image is OK for websites. But if your image resolution is smaller than 96dpi, then as sledger points out, it is going to start getting softer and fuzzier. At the exagerated resolution of 24dpi you can see how fuzzy the pixels have become.