Not resampling is what you normally want to do, this will only change the size of the print. There are 2 ways that you can change the print size, by resampling or by not resampling. This is because you look at large prints from a further distance than a small print, so you can get away with a lower PPI and still have the image look fine.Īll that PPI does is affect the print size of the image. A lot of this will depend on the size of the print. You’ll hear various different numbers thrown around as to what an acceptable PPI for a print-out is. The way that it will affect the quality of the output is that if there are too few pixels per inch, then the pixels will be very large and you will get a very pixelated image (jagged edges, you will actually see individual pixels, not good). This will affect the print size of your photo and will affect the quality of the output.
This is the number of pixels per inch in your image. Let’s start with PPI, it’s easy to understand. This article is an attempt to explain what the 2 terms mean and how they should be used.
DPI is still used in some documents and software when PPI is really what they mean, but this is changing. More recently, the term PPI (pixels per inch) has appeared in common usage and is far more specific for what the term entails. This is very confusing because different situations work with resolution in very different ways, and having a single term for all of them just makes things more confusing. The main problem with this is that DPI (dots per inch) is an old term that has been applied to everything relating to resolution and the size of a digital image. One of the more common sources of confusion is the difference between DPI and PPI. There seems to be a great deal of confusion among many people regarding the use of some terms in digital imaging. PPI and DPI are totally different and sadly often confused with one another. If I saved my image as 300ppi then it opens in PSPX4 as 300ppi. My images seem to be opening in PSP using the sizes as saved from Photoshop. Very annoying when the images always open using 72 dpiĪlso having trouble getting my head round the cropping tool cos of similar 72 issue.īut I checked Enable Auto Preserve from Preferences and seems to have done the trick.
Very new to PSP in fact just downloaded the trial version yesterday.