December 2019 • Macworld 97
an image appears when you’re looking at an image
at 100 percent.
Quality is distinct from resolution. Resolution
describes how much information was captured in
the image; it’s a description of the level of detail.
Quality determines how crisp or authentic to the
original the exported file appears. You can have an
image with enough resolution to make a billboard
from, but the quality could be so low that a lot of
detail is lost. (Many image-editing packages provide
Photos offers several ways
to control size and quality
when exporting an image