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100% Crop - please explain...

Postby nat on Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:00 pm

The term "100% crop" gets used quite a bit, but don't understand the term.
I am hoping that someone will be able to explain the 100% bit for me.
Thanks.
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Postby gstark on Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:04 pm

When I use this term, I'm referring to a section of the image (crop) at 100% pixel size.

Usually, images are reduced for display on the web, because full size images are so large. a 100% crop lets you pixel peep without the overhead of a full image.
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Postby losfp on Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:16 pm

Yep, basically a cropped image where 1 pixel on the original is 1 pixel on the final.

Or, if you like, an image that has been cropped, but not resized.
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Postby nat on Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:24 pm

Thank you - it now seems so obvious! :oops:
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