From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Always shoot big

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- There's a school of thought that says you should shoot at a lower resolution and lower quality than the best settings that your digital camera supports. That way you end up with smaller image files, so that you can shoot more images to a single memory card. This school of thought is so pervasive that many digital cameras are factory set to shoot lower quality images than the camera actually supports. This school of thought though is very, very bad. If you want to shoot more images, buy more memory cards. Otherwise you should always and without exception shoot the highest quality photographs that you possibly can. There's two reasons for this. First, your image might be crooked. Which means you'll need to rotate it so that it's plum, but pixels are always squares, and a square can't be rotated and remain a square. So when you straighten an image, Photoshop has to recalculate every single pixel. Rewriting pixels is a so called destructive modification. I don't mean that you destroy…

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