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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 329163" data-attributes="member: 12496">The 100% crop is simply a way to examine what your actual pixels look like, should you ever care.Say you have a 16 megapixel camera, D5100 is 4928x3264 pixels.&nbsp;&nbsp; This would be more than 3x taller than your 1080 pixel monitor screen (and the photo software window is even smaller).&nbsp;&nbsp; So at best, you can expect when you view your image, the temporary view you see will be automatically resampled to 25% size (or less).&nbsp; The title bars should be warning that you are looking at 25% size, or whatever the number is.&nbsp;&nbsp; 25% says that every 4x4 block of pixels (16 pixels) is reduced to one pixel representative of the associated color of 16 pixels.&nbsp; You are seeing a very different image than your pixels actually captured... only 6% of your actual data (it is all &quot;represented&quot;, but not shown as is).You can zoom the view to show 100% actual size, which means you have to scroll a few times across it, but that will show your real pixels (if and only if it says 100%).&nbsp; This is 100%, but not a crop.If you wanted to post that somewhere so someone else can see it, then you need a 100% crop, a much smaller segment of it that can be shown.&nbsp; Basically, that just means a smaller cropped image that can be shown full size in the window without automatic smaller resize, but specifically, it means that it will be shown only at 100% size.&nbsp; So first step is to insure it is smaller than any window it might be shown in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 329163, member: 12496"] The 100% crop is simply a way to examine what your actual pixels look like, should you ever care. Say you have a 16 megapixel camera, D5100 is 4928x3264 pixels. This would be more than 3x taller than your 1080 pixel monitor screen (and the photo software window is even smaller). So at best, you can expect when you view your image, the temporary view you see will be automatically resampled to 25% size (or less). The title bars should be warning that you are looking at 25% size, or whatever the number is. 25% says that every 4x4 block of pixels (16 pixels) is reduced to one pixel representative of the associated color of 16 pixels. You are seeing a very different image than your pixels actually captured... only 6% of your actual data (it is all "represented", but not shown as is). You can zoom the view to show 100% actual size, which means you have to scroll a few times across it, but that will show your real pixels (if and only if it says 100%). This is 100%, but not a crop. If you wanted to post that somewhere so someone else can see it, then you need a 100% crop, a much smaller segment of it that can be shown. Basically, that just means a smaller cropped image that can be shown full size in the window without automatic smaller resize, but specifically, it means that it will be shown only at 100% size. So first step is to insure it is smaller than any window it might be shown in. [/QUOTE]

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