A note on art sites

[dragonimp]

Aaaaarrgh people! No matter what size your image is while you're working on it, on the Web it will display at 72 dpi! This means that the nice 8"x11" scan you have? If you keep it at 300 dpi, it will display at over 2000 pixels. And just so you know, that's a wee bit big for most monitors.

Why is this such a hard concept for some people?

Comments

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

This is aimed at people who post at places like deviantART, PaperDemon, etc. whom I do expect to look into image sizing at least somewhat. The main thing to remember is that, for the screen, what's important isn't the inches but the pixels. Any art program should be able to tell you what the image size (not the print size) is in pixels as well as the pixels per inch/dpi. An image size over about 800 pixels is probably too big for most screens.