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The Trade Off Another consideration is image size. The higher the resolution, the bigger the file will be. This used to be a major concern when hard drives were measured in megabytes. Today’s drives have room for hundreds of scanned documents and photos.   The compromise here is clarity versus detail. If you are scanning photos from your great aunt’s albums, go ahead and use a higher resolution to capture the details.   If you are scanning photos to send as email attachments, again, make the scan at the higher resolution. Use an editor like Adobe Photoshop to make a smaller image size before you send it as an email attachment.   If the final output will be posted to a website, use the lowest resolution to help the webpage download faster.