image quality
How clear photos look
Image quality is how good an image looks—its sharpness, color accuracy, and freedom from visual defects.
The term applies across photography, video, printing, and digital displays: The image quality degrades when you zoom in too far.
Technical factors include resolution, contrast, noise, and compression artifacts.
What counts as good image quality depends on context—a grainy surveillance photo may have poor image quality but still serve its purpose.
- high definitionSuperior visual resolution
- color depthBits encoding pixel hues
- sharpnessKeenness of edge, mind, or image
- resolutionFormal decision or determination
- screen resolutionDisplay's detail capacity
pixels · clarity · luminance · aesthetics · noise reduction · pixel density · bit depth · color accuracy · fidelity · artifact · moire · dynamic range · color correction · signal-to-noise ratio · contrast ratio · grainy · vividness · blur
- Imaging Parametersfield of view, FOV, pixel size, SNR, noise
- editingediting, cut, copy, paste, delete
- resolutionresolution, determination, decision, solution, screen resolution
- digitizationdigitization, scanning, OCR, scanners, document imaging
- image qualitysharpness, clarity, detail, resolution, definition
- design flawsdefect, flaw, fault, glitch, bug
image qualitylow resolution
Coarse image quality
pixelation · blurriness · visual distortion · fuzziness · graininess