How to Change Your Monitor Resolution
Images, pictures, and video can all benefit from a high resolution. Before the days of advanced CRT and flat-screen LCD monitors, people had to put up with low-resolution images that caused strain to the eyes, and made working with computers uncomfortable. You can change your computer’s resolution to your preferred setting quickly and easily.
Why Change Your Monitor Resolution?
The resolution of a computer monitor is determined by the area of the pixels of an image or a setting. High resolutions are especially useful for graphic designers and those who do publishing and video editing. High resolution images are also easier to work with because you don’t have to deal with problems like pixellated images and image distortion.
Reading Resolutions
The screen resolution is denoted by two values, and is similar to how the value of an area is written in mathematics. The first value is the width of the screen, and the second value is the height of the screen. If you have your monitor set at 1024×768 resolution, that means that a full-screen image on the screen set at 1024×768 is 1024 pixels wide, and 768 pixels tall. When you multiply 1024 pixels by 768 pixels, it means that an image is crisp to 786,432 pixels.
Before advanced graphics cards and screens, screen resolutions went as low as 320×200 pixels, which was all right for the applications available before. Today, screen resolutions available with the most advanced monitors and graphics cards can reach as high as 2560×1600 pixels for WQXGA, which means that an image or video is crisp and sharp to 4,096,000 pixels.
Changing Resolution Sizes
To change the resolution of your computer (if it runs Microsoft Windows), follow these steps:
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Right-click on the Desktop and click “Properties.”
Click on the “Settings” tab.
You should see a slider bar on the window with various values. Adjust the slider bar to your desired screen resolution.
Apply the new screen resolution. Windows may prompt you to restart your computer for the new screen resolution settings to be applied.
Test the resolution; you should not see any distortions or a dramatic slowdown in performance. Very high resolution values usually take up more processing power and memory than lower resolution values. Change the resolution again if you find that the new screen resolution takes up more memory than you expect it to.
For image and video editing, high resolutions are a must. With these tips, you can adjust your screen resolution for just the right task quickly and easily.