Changing Resolution from 72 dpi to 300 dpi
Sep 10, 2017 16:22:35 #
rehess wrote:
Are you still here?? I thought you had left
She'd rather continue to make herself look foolish.
Sep 10, 2017 20:46:05 #
TheDman
Loc: USA
rmalarz wrote:
Very simply, it works. It's worked for years, for me since 1978. You can do the research yourself, but it started with Apple. Sometime in the late 1990s or so, I purchased a Sony digital camera, my first digital camera. There was scant material available regarding all of the things we know today. The jpg images that camera produced were 72dpi. Crap for printing, but looked great on monitors. I stuck with it as it still works.
--Bob
--Bob
No, it doesn't work. It has never worked. The 72 dpi images your Sony digital camera kicked out were as good for printing as they would have been if it kicked out 1,000 dpi images. The reason it was crap for print is because it was a digital camera from the late 90s and the pixel dimensions were likely something tiny like 640x480.
Sep 10, 2017 20:49:56 #
TheDman
Loc: USA
rmalarz wrote:
Simple. The photos I post here are processed to be printed at 300dpi either 12x18 or 16x20 prints. I resize for posting by changing the resolution to 72 and post. That's how I use it.
--Bob
--Bob
You could change it to 60 or 50 or 90 and it would also resize your image, assuming you leave the "resample image" checkbox checked. You're unwittingly changing the pixel dimensions of your image to something completely arbitrary and you don't even know it. It has nothing to do with the magical number 72 and everything to do with the pixel dimensions.
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