I get asked all the time:

“What’s the difference between a high-resolution photo and a low-resolution photo?”

So let me explain it the best way I can...with a food analogy!

Imagine your photo is a slice of bread. A high-resolution photo is your nice, big, fluffy slice of bread.

You can make a little sandwich with it. You can make a BIG sandwich. You can cut it in half.

Heck, you can make yourself a giant Scooby-Doo sandwich if that's what you're into.

In short, you've got plenty of bread to work with.

Now take that same slice and squish it into a little dough ball. That's your low-resolution photo.

It's still bread. It still tastes like bread. It's still technically the same piece of bread...

...but you're not going to magically unfold that dough ball back into your nice, big slice.

And that's basically what happens with a low-resolution image. You can take a big, high-resolution photo and make it smaller.

But once you've squished that image down and gotten rid of all that extra information, you can't just make it big again and get all those details back.

This is what happens if you try to enlarge photos from Facebook, from emails & texts or take the photo with the camera setting set to low resolution.

High Resolution vs low resolution photos explanation - the bread analogy

Keep the big, fluffy slice of bread. You can always make it smaller later. You can't un-squish the bread.