Specifications

44 If you open the Photos folder you see five folders. Each folder contains all your Photo CD images recorded at a specific resolution. When a Photo CD image is created, it’s recorded at five different levels of resolution. The resolution level of an image determines the amount of information recorded for it, which in turn determines how well the image can be displayed or printed. The higher the image resolution, the more information that is recorded for it.
High-resolution images can contain as much as 18 megabytes of data for one photograph. However, depending on your computer’s screen resolution or printer’s printing resolution, you may not be able to view or print the graphic at such high resolution. Because each Photo CD image is recorded at five levels of resolution, you can select and work with an image at a resolution appropriate for your display or printing device. For example, you might use a Photo CD image at low resolution for displaying images on a TV or computer screen in a multimedia presentation. On the other hand, to produce high-quality color separations from a Photo CD image, you might select a high-resolution image appropriate for the high-resolution printing capabilities of an imagesetter.