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Image quality

Digital cameras store images in a compressed format called JPEG, the most widely used file format. Others also have uncompressed formats known as TIFF and RAW. Learn how to select a compression scheme so the human eye barely notices a reduction in image quality.


Image quality and file compression

Image quality and file compression

Select high quality image settings on your digital camera. If the compression level is set too high, photo quality degrades.

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Color fringing

Color fringing

Chromatic aberration and purple fringing are two distortion effects that can negatively affect photographs. There are a couple of things you can do to minimize these effects.

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Soft images

Soft images

It’s not uncommon for digital images to look soft. Here’s why.

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Jaggies

Jaggies

Here’s what you need to do about zig-zagged diagonal lines in photos.

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