Skiextreme2 wrote:
Correct, crop means to take away pixels, so if 50% is half, think about it, if you crop 100% of a photo, there would be nothing left.
If this was bait, I bit. The portion of the source photo that is cropped is insignificant. The technique is meant to align (a portion of) the photograph so that each pixel in the image file is paired with exactly one pixel as delivered by the display adapter to whatever monitor it is driving. Since most adapters' outputs are aligned 1:1 with their monitors, it means the 1:1 pixel ration is maintained from the file to the visible screen. Further zooming in from there may break the 1:1, but at least you get to see all detail in the file that the publisher is intending to deliver.