layersmagazine.com — Possibly one of the most confusing aspects of dealing with digital imagery is resolution-specifically, what it really is and how changing it affects an image. You'd be shocked at the number of brilliant designers who don't know how to change an image from 72 dpi to 300 dpi-without turning it into a pile of pixel mush. That is, until now.
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paulDec 22, 2006
someone should send this link to the marketing departments at the company i work for.ugggg. Why can the IT people produce better stuff the the "designers"?
jtmonDec 23, 2006
A friggin MEN!!!!
twalker294Dec 23, 2006
Research "stair interpolation." That is the official name for this upsizing method and yes it does work -- better than upsizing in one big step.
simpleidDec 23, 2006
Unless you're new, you should know by now we're all a bunch of cynical and sarcastic smart ass INTJ(or P)'s, he must have been one of the ENTJ(P)'s.I guess.... happy holidays anyway. : ]
mediamanbkkDec 23, 2006
We are not all designers! I learnt something new.
infinite411Dec 23, 2006
Please excuse the double post. Some info was cut short from my original post. Ohh if you don't want your computer to hang forever while your browser loads the tiff file above. Right click and save as then open in phothoshop. The final blow up dimensions are 1067 X 1360 pixels from a measily 273 x 347 image. I don't have a decent printer so if someone would mind printing the tiff and evaluating the results? If your interested in knowing how I achieved the blowup you can email at mydiggusername + gmail.com
elmimmoDec 23, 2006
A pixel is NOT a dot. A "dot" refers to each dot an inkjet printer spits. You could print 1 single pixel at 10 ppi (which would output a printed square 1/10th of an inch wide) at 300 dpi (which would mean that the inkjet would be using 30 dots of ink wide to print it). spi, dpi, lpi and ppi at completely diferent things (well, most of the times spi and ppi are not, but still depends).
justinlarsenDec 26, 2006
Amen.
sporktekDec 26, 2006
Your displays are not set to their optimum. Especially the 42". Anyone who runs THAT low of a resolution on a display that large either sits fifteen feet from it, or it's at it's default and they don't know how to change it. In either event, no "design" is getting done. Sorry, thanks for trying.DPI may or may not be relevant to 'design', but it is not irrelevant. If you give a s**t about the printed quality of the finished product, you never put DPI out of your mind, from the beginning of the project onward.