Physical Size of Pixel Art
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16900
Printed Date: 27 October 2025 at 10:46am
Topic: Physical Size of Pixel Art
Posted By: aaro
Subject: Physical Size of Pixel Art
Date Posted: 10 August 2013 at 3:25pm
Hello, all!
I'm looking for advice regarding sizing pixel art. I'm new to the style, so this question may be rudimentary.
Essentially, I'm using MSPaint to create pixelized trading card templates. How would I go about making these templates the size of a standard trading card (3.5" x 2.5")?
I might be explaining this poorly, so to be clear: When I print the template, I want it to print to the size of a standard trading card.
Can anyone help me with this?
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Posted By: neota
Date Posted: 10 August 2013 at 6:22pm
That depends entirely on the DPI it's printed at, which is up to you to select when you are printing.
For example, supposing that you are printing at 300 dpi, then 300x300 pixels in the image is one inch on paper. Therefore, 3.5" x 2.5" at 300dpi is
(300 * 3.5 == 1050) x (300 * 2.5 = 750) pixels.
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absolutely.
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Posted By: aaro
Date Posted: 10 August 2013 at 7:13pm
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That makes perfect sense. I'll experiment with the settings to find the optimum resolution. Thanks for the help!
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