Animation and design · lesson 14 of 24 · free

Pixels and image size — Animation for kids

A digital image is a grid of tiny coloured squares called pixels. Its resolution is how many pixels wide and tall it is, and the total is width × height: 300 × 200 = 60000 pixels; one million pixels make 1 megapixel. The aspect ratio is the shape, width : height. 16:9 is wide (screens, landscape video), 4:3 is squarer (older screens), 1:1 is square (profile pictures and square posts) and 9:16 is tall (phone videos). When you resize, keep the ratio, or people look squashed.

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Width times height — “pixels = width × height; keep the ratio when you resize”

  1. Pixels = width × height; megapixels = pixels ÷ 1000000.
  2. Aspect ratio = width : height. 16:9 wide, 4:3 squarer, 1:1 square, 9:16 tall.
  3. Keep the ratio: a 16:9 frame 1920 pixels wide is 1920 ÷ 16 × 9 = 1080 tall. Printing: inches × pixels per inch.

Use it for: Choosing the right size for a slide, a video or a print, and understanding why small photos look blocky when enlarged.

Worked example: 🟦 An image is 300 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall. How many pixels does it have in all? → 60000

  1. Pixels = width × height.
  2. 300 × 200 = 60000 pixels.

Check: 60000 ÷ 300 = 200 ✓

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