TL;DR: The Short Answer Photos lose quality when sent because every messaging app and carrier compresses photos to save bandwidth and storage — it’s not your camera, and…
TL;DR: The Short Answer Facebook photos look blurry because Facebook caps every photo at 2048px on the longest edge and re-encodes it at roughly JPEG quality 85 —…
TL;DR: The Short Answer A color cast is an unwanted tint — yellow from tungsten bulbs, blue from shade, green from fluorescent lights, yellow/magenta from old photos —…
TL;DR: The Short Answer Motion blur happens when the shutter stays open too long and something moves — either your hands (camera shake, whole frame streaked) or the…
TL;DR: The Short Answer AI images fail in predictable ways: extra/fused fingers (#1 flaw), distorted/asymmetric faces, garbled text, extra limbs, waxy plastic skin, blurry hair edges, and object…
TL;DR: The Short Answer Instagram photos look blurry because Instagram runs every upload through a four-pass pipeline: (1) resize to exactly 1080px wide, (2) crop to an allowed…
TL;DR: The Short Answer RAW is a digital negative — it contains every photon your sensor captured, completely unprocessed. It’s 12–14 bit (4,096–16,384 tonal levels per channel —…
TL;DR: The Short Answer sRGB is the universal web standard — created by HP and Microsoft in 1996, it covers ~35% of colors the human eye can see,…
TL;DR: The Short Answer 300 PPI (pixels per inch) at the final print size is the gold standard for anything viewed at arm’s length — 4×6, 5×7, 8×10,…
TL;DR: The Short Answer 300 PPI is overkill for large posters and canvas. What actually governs resolution is viewing distance — the human eye resolves detail down to…
