Printing Digital Images Page 3 of 4 What you see is not necessarily what you get. Our eyes see the greatest range of colors.
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While a color monitor displays even fewer colors. The resolution of your monitor limits the number of colors displayed and therefore will affect the color, sharpness and quality of the image you are viewing on the screen. XGA 1024x768 Let's take a closer look at how monitors process your pictures. It takes many colored RGB dots to make one pixel and many pixels to make an image. So, the finer the number of dots and the closer the dot spacing, the sharper the images appear.