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When I shoot a photo on my pro digital camera, it is in high resolution (hi rez). It is 5 MEGA bytes in size. It is big. * At actual size, it is WAY bigger than my computer monitor.   It will print perfectly sharp, up to the size of a street poster. It is 2300 by 2800 pixels.   A pixel is a little square. Same as on your TV. Your most amazing new Hi Def TV is 1920 by 1080 pixels My hi rez pic photo has more pixels. (2300 by 2800) See the individual pixels in the extreme close up below When you get millions of pixels together it looks like a normal picture. That's what megapixels are.     That's ... Hi Rez   So what's the problem?   It's too big! It's too big to attach to an email. It clogs up your agent's computer. Is is rude to upload it to Showcast or AT2. Nobody needs to see the veins in your eyes. It's just too damn big. I do give you the hi rez photos on your CD. You can print them out.   I also, for free, put the digital photos into the Photoshop computer program, and change their size to 656 by 820 pixels. And I give them to you as well. In a second folder. 656 x 820 is the acting industry agreed size for lo rez photos. That's this big... I have not shown a photo because this web page is already heavy enough. Low rez (656 x 820) is still big enough to load slowly and chew up your monthly data allowance. A low rez photo is around 140 KILO bytes in size. That's about 1/8 of a Megabyte. That is 1/40 of the data size of the same photo in Hi Rez. If you hold your arms out as far as you can reach, that is how big the Hi Rez one would be in comparison.   See below the actual size of a low rez photo at 100% on a big computer monitor. It is perfectly big enough to see what you look like. Many agencies will show it on their websites even smaller. Lo rez is for internet use.   You can't print them bigger that 10 cm wide or else they look like this: Actually you can see what 656 x 820 looks like printed if you look at the Showcast book. Those Black and white photos are that size. If you want to print bigger than that, use the Hi Rez! So, to summarise:   You get... 50 hi rez photos in a folder. Use these ones for printing. 50 lo rez photos in a folder. Use these ones for internet.       Exception: If we go ahead and shoot 1 Black and white ($250) and 4 colour ($30 each) it will be impossible for me to edit it down to 50 photos during our session. In that case we would go for 4 proof sheets and 100 photos in each folder. * Yes, boffins, the numbers are ever so slightly rounded off. This page is simplified for those with a life outside the monitor!