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Old 22-10-08, 16:14
Chris
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sorry to confuse

Viewing the images in a photographic-editing programme allows the whole image to be viewed at the magnification allowed by the monitor's largest resolution OR only in part. ie your 3000x2000 images would come up at, say, 50% magnification on a reasonably affordable monitor if set up "full screen view" (usually command 0/zero). OR if you want to look at it full size to deal with, most usually, the degree of sharpening needed, you would be looking at only 1/3 or so of the area of the image at a time and have to scroll around it.

It is normal to reduce images for posting on web and viewing via browser in, eg, WPF (where anything larger than 1024w gets reduced by the software to 1024w, and posting an image larger generates a 'click to enlarge' message and depending on the size of the image boundary left inside the browser's frame, you may still be able to see it all, or maybe have to scroll). That is the benefit of the larger resolution monitors (and setting your software preferences/settings so as not to waste screen space with tool bars etc not needed for the job in hand). It is usually necessary to reduce the image to get within the byte size allowed on the particular forum.

However, always keep a copy of the original image at full size, and if printing, print from the full sized image.

For more detailed advice, we would need to know your operating system and software.
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