![]() ![]() The problem is that I want to manipulate the dpi and see what it does to the pixels. I don't think of my web images in inches. It won't let me select pixels because someone decided that I as a user didn't need pixels. If want to change the width to a smaller size and allow it to increase the dpi, I don't know what I'm doing in inches. Inches mean nothing in web design, everything is defined by the pixel. If I want to lock the dpi and change the pixels, that's fine, but on as many occasions if not more, I reduce the dpi to 72, which will scale the image. I need to understand what that means in terms of web design, not print. Once I do that, I can often crop as I please or get close to the size I need and use the canvas size for the rest. If you tell me something is 10" I don't know what that means in pixels. I don't print, I am working on UI's for web applications and everything is 72 dpi. I'll have to do some crazy calculation to figure out what I'm looking at or bring it in and see what it does. I never had this problem until I went onto the "cloud" which is a crock to make people pay more money and nothing Abambo guessing means it will be wrong and I can't sit around trying to guess how many pixels = inches. I've been working on this industry since the 90s so I have a pretty good grasp on how "all image processing programs" work. I want to take the dpi down and I want it to shift the size up or down. I used to do this and have the flexibility of seeing the outcome in pixels or inches. So how I'm supposed to "keep thinking in pixels. as a professional" when I can't see the pixel measurement? I'm sure you're "brilliant" and do the math in your head but personally, I'm visual and don't have the time for getting my calculator and trying to figure out the inches to pixel conversion. I'm more interested in solving the problems that are relevant to the task at hand. I don't need another genius who can't think out of the box, imposing their perception of the world on 100% of users. Maybe inches are great for some, but not all. Why that flexibility has been removed is nonsensical. DPI and resolution are different and I often flip them around in my dyslexic brain. It still doesn't make what I'm saying any less relevant. I care if I can get an image to the size I want on screen. To be more specific, I need it to display on a browser at the size I want. The pixel dimensions I have to flip back and forth on a dropbox to see. The ones I used to see immediately but don't any more. the ones I can no longer directly manipulate along with the resolution. Those little boxes on the screen that make an image. Those boxes that in essence work in exactly the same manor as dpi. Instead of drops of ink on paper they are little boxes that we register as an image. Far less of them indeed than dpi but the concept is exactly the same. That's why this dyslexic brain flips them around on me.ĭPI and resolution are different and I often flip them around in my dyslexic brain. Just keep Resample checked, and you can change the pixel dimensions.įorget about resolution - it's meaningless and irrelevant in this context. The number in the Resolution field is called ppi - pixels per inch. ![]() If you have an image that is 2400 x 3000 pixels with Resolution set to 300, it will print at 8 x 10 inches, because 2400:300 = :300 = 10.ĭpi (dots per inch) refers to printer resolution - i.e. the number of dots a printer can print per inch on paper. The advent of the high resolution screens while making images crisper makes it one step removed from what the browser renders which adds another layer on there. What I see on screen isn't exactly what I see in the browser any longer and now I rely even more on the pixel dimensions to ensure I have the right size. High resolution screens are indeed a problem, but it has nothing to do with ppi or resolution. When a web browser detects a high resolution screen, it will scale everything (including images) to 200% - otherwise everything would display tiny. And when the images are scaled, they will lose sharpness. ![]()
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