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chimerical aka Gordon is 26.82 years old, has been a member since June 14, 2006, has scored 34 submissions, giving an average score of 3.32, helping 1 designs get printed.

Aug 05 '06 by chimerical
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Photoshop 150 DPI and PPI

Hi. The guidelines ask that we use at least 150 DPI for raster Photoshop images. Does this refer to screen resolution or print resolution? (I think the default setting in Photoshop is (72 screen resolution; print resolution 300).

Also, how do I set the 150 DPI in Photoshop?

Thanks!

margolove on Aug 05 '06 at 3:20am

go to "image size" and set the resolution to 150 pixels/inch. At least, I'm fairly sure that's how you do it. Hopefully someone else will correct it if I'm wrong.

chimerical on Aug 05 '06 at 3:21am

Yeah, that's what I thought too, but I'm confused over why it says pixels/inch (ppi) instead of dots/inch (dpi).

Tonteau on Aug 05 '06 at 4:48am

Dots per inch relates to printing (or, more specifically, the resolution of your printer), pixels per inch relates to the dispaly resolution of your electronic image :)

Bowser on Aug 05 '06 at 7:45am

just go with the print setting (300dpi)

lsmc88 on Aug 05 '06 at 9:21am

i just put 150 when I create a new file.

melhel86 on Aug 05 '06 at 10:04am

I'd start with a 300 dpi image, after all if you get chosen, it's easier to have a file like that.

Then when you "save for web" to send it to Threadless I would change the dpi/ppi there and save a different version. It's always better to start high and go low, rather than the other way around.

chimerical on Aug 05 '06 at 2:56pm

So, even though it never explicitly says "dpi" in the Photoshop interface, setting 150 "pixels/inch" under "resolution" would essentially be setting 150 dpi?

710 days later

skyscraperinc on Jul 16 '08 at 9:56am

do you happen to know how big the photoshop document size should be if you submit a design?

fatheed on Jul 16 '08 at 10:01am

Always 300dpi. And work on a canvas that is 15" inches at the longest dimension, so that it can be printed on at least a scale of 1:1

I use the UK (international) paper size of A3 and expand the canvas if necessary during the design.

skyscraperinc on Jul 16 '08 at 10:21am

thank you so much :)

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