Question for all my friends who make and sell prints of their art
If you have ever printed out your art for sale or just for display, did you print them at home or did you take them to a printers?I tried printing an art project out here at my house. And it came out looking...not as good as it does on the computer. Like...it looks pixelated and I can see every dot of color. So it doesn't look very smooth or
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Some programs will resize a photo when the DPI is changed. Be very careful of this. To change the DPI without changing the pixel size of the photo you should click on the "maintain original size" (i.e. Corel Photopaint) or similar option that some programs offers, or click off "resample image" that other programs offer (i.e. Adobe Photoshop).
Make sure that you select/deselect the appropriate option before changing the DPI so that the pixel size of the image does not change. At least one program, Irfanview, by default allows the easy changing of the DPI with no corresponding resizing of the photo.
If you do want to change the size of your digital image, get in the habit of either changing the pixel size directly or use the percentage (%) change option provided by most programs. When doing this make sure the option to "maintain aspect ratio" or "constrain proportions" is selected so that the image get evenly changed in size both vertically and horizontally.
Print shops and many photo editors still live in the mythical world of "DPI is resolution." In the past, when a photo was requested from me "at xxx DPI" I would sometime put on my "DPI is meaningless" hat and rant a bit. Now I just give them what they want. I usually ask for the intended size of output and using the 200 rule (photographic quality is achieved at about 200 ppi) let them know if the photo I have would be suitable (based on pixel size). Then I set the DPI of that photo to whatever they want (it doesn't change the quality of the photo in any way) and send it along.
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I'm rather discouraged now.
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