

Resolution you were talking about is completely overkill. In most offset printing scenarios, the amount of Should make a decision on how much resolution you need for a Second: more resolution does not automatically mean better. Thus: 10,800 (total pixels in width)ĭivided by 600 (pixels per inch) gives you the 18 inches. Many pixels are going to be represented as one inch of the image,Įither in height or width. Is defined as your PPI (or DPI as people improperly call it) is how The math isn’t really all that hard, and there are two aspects of itįirst: pixels divided by PPI (that should be Pixels Per Inch, notĭots Per Inch or DPI) equals inches. Painting the work and then having to redo it because the image is too Want to learn the hard way by finding out after I’ve spent all this time Without sacrificing quality (or at least I think I know), but I don’t I know that there’s one of these numbers I can change I try setting up the image in Photoshop as an 18″×24″ document atĦ00 DPI (I figured higher DPI is better…?) but the document ends upīeing like 11,000×14,000 or something close to that. Printed at 18″×24″ inches for poster-sized prints. To cover my printing options in anticipation of this artwork being Will be printed at 9″×12″ (at a minimum of 300 DPI). I’m creating a digital painting for a book cover that Isn’t grasping this, so I’ll just ask the question I need answered and I’ve read this entire article and numerous others, and my art brain just
