Clear your mind. Clear your head. Here's a different way to consider the term "image resolution." It's nothing more than an instruction to a printing device about how large to replicate each pixel. It's a printing instruction about pixel size. Nothing more. And Photoshop's View> Print Size command? Ignore it completely. Image resolution as pixel size The term "resolution" crops up in a number of different ways. There's image resolution, printer resolution, monitor resolution, scanner resolution.and we won't even mention your last New Year's Resolution.