What does Astrobin's 1x, 2x, 4x...options mean? AstroBin Platform open discussions community forum · Alex Woronow · ... · 1 · 115 · 0

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When posting an image, one option is how much zooming a viewer can do. The options (e.g., 1x, 2x…) are available, but what do they mean? For instance does "1x"  mean that one pixel in the image is mapped to 1 pixel on the viewing monitor, or, perhaps it means it appears on the monitor at 1x the way it is shown when the user first opens it's page…that is, no zoom from the way the image first appears. Or is the zoom still something different?

And do all viewers, independent of their devices and monitors see the same resolution if the appears at 2x, for instance?
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siovene
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Alex Woronow:
For instance does "1x"  mean that one pixel in the image is mapped to 1 pixel on the viewing monitor

Exactly this, and it applies to the zoom view in the new gallery experience.

In the classic UI you could only zoom in up to 1x (in other words, native resolution of the image).
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