This may be a dumb question, but what is a 100% crop and how do you do one? The whole photo would literally be 100%, but that’s clearly not what people mean. Seeing the cropped pixels at a certain magnification? But if that, does it depend on the size and resolution of the screen used to view it?
100% Crop?
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It generally means cropping to 1:1 pixel view which in tools like Photoshop is shown as a 100% zoom level. At that point a single pixel in your image is mapped to a single pixel on your monitor.
Thanks DR. That seems more geared to the zoom level of the viewer than any particular crop. If I crop an image on my 27” iMac screen at 100% zoom, I see pixels at 1:1. But if I send that cropped image to you or post it on a web site, do you need to view at a zoom of 100% too. If not, you’re not seeing a 1:1 pixel view.
True to some extent, but you can also look at this from a different perspective. Think about posting web images to a standardized size like the 1200x800 pixel images recommended for this site.
With that perspective a 1:1 crop would cut out a 1200x800 pixel block out of the original image and save that as the jpeg for web posting here. You wouldn't downsize the image to those pixel dimensions, you'd just crop away all the pixels outside of a box of that size. That's another way to look at the meaning of a 100% crop but yes what that looks like depends on things like screen size and resolution.
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Thanks DR. Very helpful.