High Resolution Images

The digital photography revolution is well underway and technology for digital imaging is growing by leaps and bounds. New cameras continually promise higher resolutions than ever before to the point where now it is possible to affordably purchase a camera capable of shooting at 15 megapixels and higher. With cameras taking such high resolution images it is a shame to spoil these priceless memories by displaying them at reduced levels of clarity.


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Original Image (click for full view)

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Image after being loaded to Facebook (click for full view)
When you upload your photos to our cloud server ZooFoo stores the original high resolution version of your image. You care about how your photos look and the fact is that photos look best when they are displayed at as high a resolution as possible. When a photo is shrunk much of its detail becomes lost due to formatting.

Frustrated with the low display quality and cluttered appearance of commercial photo sharing sites people often email higher quality image files to each other as attachments. Everyone has had the experience of receiving one of these massive files. You try to open it in the browser and become totally frustrated after slowly loading the image only to find that it suddenly expands to fill significantly more space then your monitor can display. ZooFoo solves this problem by formatting the picture on the fly based on the size of the display device. When you upload and share your high resolution images on ZooFoo they look as large, clean and crisp as possible regardless of what device they are being viewed on.

Users of sites like Facebook are often frustrated by the low quality images that they receive after loading their originals to share with friends. Because this reduction in quality is permanent it becomes impossible to recover high quality versions of those images unless a backup copy exists locally. ZooFoo stores the high resolution image and displays the photo at an optimized resolution without ever having to compromise the quality of the original photograph.

Another challenge people face with extremely high resolution is the size of the images. High resolution images tend to be large files which quickly fill up your hard drive. This results in the necessity to invest money in additional storage and backup systems. By accepting files from as small as 10kb to as large as 15mb ZooFoo allows you to not worry about maintaining the infrastructure necessary to store thousands of high quality images. We take care of this headache allowing you to spend more time organizing your photos and sharing them with the world!

By deciding to accept peoples original high resolution images we also realized that we would need to accept a wider variety of file formats. In addition to the standard file formats of .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp and .gif ZooFoo also supports .eps, .png, .tif and .tiff file types.

High resolution images are here to stay. They will be part of the digital landscape from here on out. If you have any doubt of this fact check out the incredible Yosemite 17 Gigapixel image. This massive composite panorama series of Yosemite park is fully zoomable to incredibly high levels of detail. It is essential that home computer users find a way to store and share their own beautiful images online without compromising storage space, quality or accessibility.

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