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<blockquote data-quote="MeSess" data-source="post: 279970" data-attributes="member: 21237"><p>File size only relates to quality when it comes to compression and data loss. Some file sizes are larger than others because they retain all of the original data from the image that was taken (RAW, TIFF etc.) and that is why they are referred to as lossless file types. Because these retain all of the original data that was captured their file size is going to be large. When converted to formats like JPEG the file is compressed and loses some of the original data in order to make the file size smaller. When this occurs you have a decrease in image quality and the degree at which this happens depends on the amount of compression that occurs and the quality of the original image. The higher the quality the better it's going to withstand this compression. There are very high quality JPEG files out there that retain most of the original file's data. These files that lose data are often referred to as lossy file types which is for obvious reasons. When people complain about what websites do to their images they are complaining about these compression rates and loss of data. If you take a very high quality large file size image and compress it down to use on Facebook or something like that the quality dropoff can be quite drastic. </p><p></p><p>As for monitors and how they display your pictures, a high quality monitor can make a world of difference. First of all most modern monitors are capable of displaying at greater than 72dpi or whatever the default setting is and that is just set like that because that used to be the industry standard (google it). Secondly, you can buy monitors that feature ISP panels (Dell Ulstrasharp etc.) that have a much higher resolution and much better color reproduction than your standard monitor. These monitors are very popular with photographers and graphic designers because they can accurately portray images better than other monitors and are better suited for editing. If your monitor isn't very good it's not going to matter how high quality your image is because it's just not going to be able to reproduce it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MeSess, post: 279970, member: 21237"] File size only relates to quality when it comes to compression and data loss. Some file sizes are larger than others because they retain all of the original data from the image that was taken (RAW, TIFF etc.) and that is why they are referred to as lossless file types. Because these retain all of the original data that was captured their file size is going to be large. When converted to formats like JPEG the file is compressed and loses some of the original data in order to make the file size smaller. When this occurs you have a decrease in image quality and the degree at which this happens depends on the amount of compression that occurs and the quality of the original image. The higher the quality the better it's going to withstand this compression. There are very high quality JPEG files out there that retain most of the original file's data. These files that lose data are often referred to as lossy file types which is for obvious reasons. When people complain about what websites do to their images they are complaining about these compression rates and loss of data. If you take a very high quality large file size image and compress it down to use on Facebook or something like that the quality dropoff can be quite drastic. As for monitors and how they display your pictures, a high quality monitor can make a world of difference. First of all most modern monitors are capable of displaying at greater than 72dpi or whatever the default setting is and that is just set like that because that used to be the industry standard (google it). Secondly, you can buy monitors that feature ISP panels (Dell Ulstrasharp etc.) that have a much higher resolution and much better color reproduction than your standard monitor. These monitors are very popular with photographers and graphic designers because they can accurately portray images better than other monitors and are better suited for editing. If your monitor isn't very good it's not going to matter how high quality your image is because it's just not going to be able to reproduce it. [/QUOTE]
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