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Photo Handling 349

When importing at 96dpi each pixel of the photo takes one pixel of screen, so you're
seeing the full resolution image when viewing at 100%.

However because most digital photos are very high resolution, this means you may only
see a small part of your photo, so initially Xara Designer Pro X will automatically alter the
zoom scale to zoom out so you can see the whole image. This also means that a typical
digital photo will be far, far larger than your page size (your screen is probably only about
1200 pixels across, and a typical digital photo is 3 or 4 times as wide, sometimes a lot
more)

To reduce the size, just drag one of the photo adjustment handles, or one of the
SELECTOR TOOL, corner handles or enter a new width in the SELECTOR TOOL InfoBar width
field.

Photo resolution

One fundamental difference between Xara Designer Pro X and other photo tools is that
when you resize a photo it retains the full resolution. Scaling an image to be smaller, just
increases the dpi or ppi (pixels per inch). In other words no pixels are lost, they are just
made smaller.

96ppi image on the left when scaled down to half size becomes twice the resolution, 192ppi.
The status line shows the resolution of any selected image. Retaining the full resolution
is important because it means you can see all the detail when you zoom in, and that
when printing the maximum resolution is sent to the printer. Also it means you can
enlarge all or part of the image and Designer Pro retains the original maximum quality.