Art & Design - Tuesday, July 8, 2008 19:34 - 0 Comments

Tips for Adobe Photoshop CS3, How to Pick an image resolution (Understanding Image Resolution)

After you have the concept of resampling under your belt, how do you know what size you should be resampling to? How many pixels do you need? Here are your general guidelines:
Photos for your inkjet printer:
Inkjet printers are stochastic printing devices: That is, they use a series of droplets to replicate each pixel in your image, as shown in Figure 2-12. In theory, the optimal image resolution is ƒ1?3 of the printer’s rated resolution.
For example, a printer rated at 720 ppi works best with images at 240 ppi.
1,440 ppi printer, the [Read More]