* A GUI on a 1920x1080 ("full high definition") monitor displays about 6 megabytes of data (2 megapixels million pixels x 3 bytes per pixel)* A CUI TUI on an 80x25 character terminal displays about 2 kilobytes of data (0.002 megabytes) at one time

To cropAs an example of the strengths of each type of user interface, resizeconsider the task of croping, resizing, and change changing the format of photosphotographs:* A GUI immediately shows the effect of changes and allows the adjustments to be easily fine-tuned, producing an exact result results for a small number of photos. However, it may take many steps to perform the edits, so editing hundreds of photographs will take a very long time.