Renegade — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:56:52 +0000

I think it was simple enough bja888, it didn't need to be simplfied any further.

Anyway, any images higher than 72dpi won't really be noticed unless zoomed in or printed out simply because 72dpi is about as high a resolution a screen can output.

bja888 — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:21:04 +0000

Yes, but I made it simple.

JeevesBond — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:15:48 +0000

Oh ignore Bryan, look at that kitten... Awwwww, bless!

timjpriebe — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:03:06 +0000

Uh, didn't everyone else just say that, bja?

bja888 — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:32:45 +0000

Photoshp was designed for 2 types of media.
1) Internet
2) Print
If you do "Save As..." it assumes you want print quality or that you will come back to it later. Where "Save for web" takes out all the fine lines for print and replaces them with pixels.

lex — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:12:08 +0000

No prob Greg. I hope the info was helpful

Greg K — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:10:01 +0000

Ahh. every other program I have used always treated 1 pixel as one dot. ie. if you had a 120 pixel wide image, it was always 120 pixels wide. (ie. if you have it set for 2inches wide, and and you had it 72dpi, you had 144 pixels wide. If you had it set for 300dpi then it was 600 pixels wide.) so I expected when i gave it a final pixel dimension that was how many it would use.

Myself, for all web images, I set units to be pixels just for this reason. The only thing I use another unit for is printed stuff, which I set it inches and do it in Corel Draw. (and becasue i have a color laser that does 600dpi, boy can that make some huge print files...)

Thank you for the help on that.

-Greg

lex — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:06:17 +0000

Exactly however for Internet use , you visually can't see the difference unless your zooming in. Oh and theres the whole "compression" ordeal but thats another matter. For printing you wanna stay at 200DPI for crisp photos.

demonhale — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:03:35 +0000

yep just about it... as lex pointed out, how much dots can you fit inside a 122x132 image is the factor... the more dots, the crisper on resize, but much larger file size

lex — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:53:47 +0000

Its all about RESOLUTION Greg.

Even though the dimensions of the original was 122x132, the files resolution was probally set to 300 DPI (dot per inch) When you choose to save for web, the size is automatically change to 72DPI (internet friendly) thus reducing the size considerbly

This is a photo of my Kitten at 200 DPI. note the size is 120KB

Same photo but reduced to 72 DPI. note the size at 41KB.

BTW his name is Butters and hes a full grown cat now heehee

Its hard to see any differences except downloading from the internet. One of my jobs as a website designer is that I always optimize my files for faster site loading. I hope this helps Greg

BTW I am a Photoshop fanantic