Resolution is a way of measuring the sharpness of a photo.
The higher the resolution, the sharper and clearer the details of a photo will appear. The Importance Of High-Resolution Scans When PhotoWorks scans your photos for storage in your online archive, two different degrees of resolution can be used. Standard resolution is fine for viewing your photos in your PhotoWorks archive and for e-mailing them to others. For a technical explanation of resolution, click here .