TABLE OF CONTENTS There is no way to get around the fact that the quality of your final digital pictures is dependent on how well they were captured initially. Poorly photographed or badly scanned images take their problems with them throughout the whole production process and end up as poor quality prints. One of the best ways to increase the level of your work is to ensure that you have the skills and knowledge necessary to create the best digital file possible at the time of capture. This is true for the majority of you who now shoot with a digital camera as well as those who are converting existing photographic images to digital with a scanner.
To help gain this level of control let s go back to the basics and see how factors like resolution and numbers of colours affect the quality of image capture.
Most of us, no matter how new to digital photography, are aware that resolution has a direct link with picture quality. It is true that this factor, along with the numbers of colors (bit depth) saved in the file, or captured by the camera, helps determine the overall quality of the image.
The rule of thumb that most new users adhere to goes something like this the higher the resolution and the greater the bit depth the better the image will be and to a large extent this is true. High-resolution images with lots of colors are generally better quality than...
