Once you print an image, you’ll need to start talking about dots per inch, or DPI (more on that later).īut photographers and printers often do talk about PPI as a way to reference image resolution before sending it off to a printer (and this is very useful).įor instance, you might say that an image has 300 ppi, meaning that 300 pixels will ultimately go into a single inch of your final print. However, computer monitors have a PPI–in fact, it’s a set PPI that cannot change, no matter how many times you change the PPI in an editing program. A print doesn’t really have a PPI measurement because it’s not made up of pixels. Note that pixels per inch only applies to images displayed digitally. Specifically, if you look at an inch of an image and counted the pixels lengthwise or heightwise, that would be your PPI measurement.
Pixels per inch is a common way to refer to pixel density (in other words, the number of pixels in a set area). Yet, you might be wondering: What exactly is pixels per inch? How do you measure it? PPI: The Key Measurement of Pixel Density Now, I’ve thrown around some pixels per inch language above. But print resolution thinks about detail in a different context–the context of a physical print–whereas digital image resolution thinks about detail in terms of pixels per image, or pixels per inch. Ultimately, then, resolution really is all about detail. More pixels make for more detail, and more detail equals more resolution. So, when a camera takes an image, it records a certain number of pixels. And when discussed in terms of display output, digital image resolution is often discussed in terms of PPI, or pixels per inch. Now, resolution in printing is different from digital image resolution.ĭigital image resolution refers to the number of pixels an image file contains. If you took a strong enough magnifying glass or microscope, and you examined a standard photo print, you’d see plenty of tiny dots, each corresponding to different colors in an image. Pixel per inch or PPI is measure for different devices such as tablets, Mobile phones e.t.c.After all, a print is literally just thousands of tiny dots, all blending to create a lifelike image when viewed from a certain distance. Lines per inch or LPI is usually used in laser printers. Dots per inch:ĭots per inch or DPI is usually used in monitors. They are discussed in more detail in the next tutorial but just a brief introduction has been given below. Since the spatial resolution refers to clarity, so for different devices, different measure has been made to measure it. That is because the picture on the right is a blurred image. Now when you compare them, you will see that the picture on the left side has more spatial resolution or it is more clear then the picture on the right side. Both the pictures has same dimensions which are of 227 X 222. So in order to measure spatial resolution, the pictures below would server the purpose. Remember the factor of zoom does not matter in this condition, the only thing that matters is that these two pictures are not equal. We cannot compare them to see that which one is more clear. Whereas the picture on the right side has the dimensions of 980 X 749 and also it is a zoomed image. The picture on the left is zoomed out picture of Einstein with dimensions of 227 x 222. You cannot compare these two images to see the clarity of the image.Īlthough both images are of the same person, but that is not the condition we are judging on. If we have to compare the two images, to see which one is more clear or which has more spatial resolution, we have to compare two images of the same size. In short what spatial resolution refers to is that we cannot compare two different types of images to see that which one is clear or which one is not. Or in other way we can define spatial resolution as the number of independent pixels values per inch. (Digital Image Processing - Gonzalez, Woods - 2nd Edition) The number of pixels in an image does not matter. Spatial resolution states that the clarity of an image cannot be determined by the pixel resolution. In this tutorial, we are going to define another type of resolution which is spatial resolution. One type of it which is pixel resolution that has been discussed in the tutorial of pixel resolution and aspect ratio. Image resolution can be defined in many ways.
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