Re: screen resolution

That is the double-edged sword of changing the screen resolution - you get more stuff on the screen, but much of the stuff that there get's smaller.

Screen res determines how many pixels of information are displayed on the screen; many items displayed on a PC are "pictures" composed of a fixed number of pixels. For example, if a screen icon is 100x100 pixels and the resolution of your monitor is set to 640x480, that icon would be filling up about a fifth of the screen vertically (100/480). Now if you increase the screen res to 1280x1024, that same icon's 100x100 pixels only take up only a tenth of the screen's verticle space (100/1024), so it will be smaller. If an item has a fixed number of pixels and you increase the size, it will probably look fuzzier, since the computer has to invent the extra pixels needed to make it bigger.

Windows allows you to increase the size of the icons and text on the desktop to some degree, but if you increase the resolution, but then make everything bigger, you haven't gained much really .

To further complicate things, not every type of image/screen element is made up of a fixed number of pixels, many are, but some items are actually sort of formulas that tell the PC how to create the shape of the object. In the case of these items, you can keep making them as big as you like and they will still appear sharp, as the PC just changes the formula to compensate and add the details. This method is generally used with geometric shapes and text, but not for items with complex lines and color shading, like photographs.
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James
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"Millie" <jackied@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:BC5FDB36-A435-48C0-BC5A-A69BF09B4C43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi


Can someone please explain screen resolution to me? I understand when I'm
using Photoshop the more pixels per inch the sharper an image will be. Does
the same apply to screen resolution? If I increase it, will the text be
sharper? Also, why do all the icons on my desktop get smaller with higher
resolution?

I've got it set to 1024x768 at the moment.
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Millie

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