My fellow photographers. I have made a discovery. After several years of taking digital photographs I have failed to grasp the concepts of resizing images completely. I will now ask a really silly question and I ask for your patience.
The only resizing I have done is when exporting RAW Files as jpegs for use on the web or email. I know how to do this.
However, I keep reading about images needing to be “downsampled” to a given size in order to compare resolution differences in cameras.
Now this makes sense to me because, other than images being a bit larger ( and so showing a little more detail ) I see no difference between high resolution sensors and lower resolution ones when viewed at 100%. However I assume to do this, I need to reduce the length and width of the image while maintaining the number of pixels to effectively increase resolution. Obviously, if I reduce the number of pixels, I’m throwing resolution away so the downsizing is going to have either no effect or a deleterious effect on the IQ.
I’m a bit confused as to how to achieve this result with LR can anyone explain to me how to do this?
The only resizing I have done is when exporting RAW Files as jpegs for use on the web or email. I know how to do this.
However, I keep reading about images needing to be “downsampled” to a given size in order to compare resolution differences in cameras.
Now this makes sense to me because, other than images being a bit larger ( and so showing a little more detail ) I see no difference between high resolution sensors and lower resolution ones when viewed at 100%. However I assume to do this, I need to reduce the length and width of the image while maintaining the number of pixels to effectively increase resolution. Obviously, if I reduce the number of pixels, I’m throwing resolution away so the downsizing is going to have either no effect or a deleterious effect on the IQ.
I’m a bit confused as to how to achieve this result with LR can anyone explain to me how to do this?
