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hlx
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Topic: dpi for pixel art?
Posted: 13 June 2012 at 7:57pm

72 or 300?

What does everyone use?

I would think you could get a huge more level of detail out of 300dpi, but more pixels involved.

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Posted: 13 June 2012 at 9:07pm

dpi makes no difference when creating pixel art; it's how many pixels there are in one inch when printing.

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Posted: 14 June 2012 at 6:32am

Right, I was aware of that.

However, to clarify my question a bit more:

At 100x100 at 72 dpi, vs 100x100 at 300dpi, there are clearly more pixels to be placed (this is obvious)

So, the resultant piece would then be easier to detail I would think? or does PJ only reccommend us use 72dpi?

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Posted: 14 June 2012 at 6:48am

No, there is no difference on screen. As you said yourself, 100 pixels at 72 dpi is the same as 100 pixels at 300, 600 or 1,000,000 dpi. All of them have 10,000 pixels to work with.

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Posted: 14 June 2012 at 7:21am

You only do pixel art if you expect the result to be watched on a medium where the individual pixel can be (easily) distinguished at the naked eye, either because of it's native resolution (iphone3, computer screen resolutions up to 640), or voluntarily zoomed out by an integer factor (x2, x3, etc)

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Posted: 14 June 2012 at 10:55am

Always 72.
If you should need a higher res for printing, scaling or whatever else then you interpolate up as needed for a given project from the original 72, as a copy.

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hlx Seaman Joined: 07 November 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 22	Topic: dpi for pixel art? Posted: 13 June 2012 at 7:57pm
	72 or 300? What does everyone use? I would think you could get a huge more level of detail out of 300dpi, but more pixels involved.
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jeremy Rear Admiral Joined: 25 November 2024 Location: New Zealand Online Status: Offline Posts: 1704	Posted: 13 June 2012 at 9:07pm
	dpi makes no difference when creating pixel art; it's how many pixels there are in one inch when printing.
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hlx Seaman Joined: 07 November 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 22	Posted: 14 June 2012 at 6:32am
	Right, I was aware of that. However, to clarify my question a bit more: At 100x100 at 72 dpi, vs 100x100 at 300dpi, there are clearly more pixels to be placed (this is obvious) So, the resultant piece would then be easier to detail I would think? or does PJ only reccommend us use 72dpi?
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jeremy Rear Admiral Joined: 25 November 2024 Location: New Zealand Online Status: Offline Posts: 1704	Posted: 14 June 2012 at 6:48am
	No, there is no difference on screen. As you said yourself, 100 pixels at 72 dpi is the same as 100 pixels at 300, 600 or 1,000,000 dpi. All of them have 10,000 pixels to work with.
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yrizoud Commander Joined: 03 May 2021 Location: France Online Status: Offline Posts: 343	Posted: 14 June 2012 at 7:21am
	You only do pixel art if you expect the result to be watched on a medium where the individual pixel can be (easily) distinguished at the naked eye, either because of it's native resolution (iphone3, computer screen resolutions up to 640), or voluntarily zoomed out by an integer factor (x2, x3, etc)
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 29 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 14 June 2012 at 10:55am
	Always 72. If you should need a higher res for printing, scaling or whatever else then you interpolate up as needed for a given project from the original 72, as a copy.
	PJs FAQ <•> Sticky Reads
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