On Sep 7, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Schneider, Abraham wrote:

> Are you using these output files in print or why do you need a different DPI 
> value? And where does a 424dpi value come from? Very strange value. 

Photographic texture samples. These are being made into texture tiles for CG. 
The real world measurements are necessary to get accurate correspondences to 
the models, which are in real world units - Inches in this case...
 
> 
> I suppose you are aware that the DPI value of file formats is only a 'label' 
> at the files, which has nothing to do with the content of the files itself 
> and is only useful where a software automatically scales images in a print 
> context (or any other context where there are measurements in real world 
> units like inches, centimeters, etc.).

Yes.

> 
> I'm just curious about you're setup and/or use case, that's why I'm asking :)

All valid questions.


Rich

> 
> Abraham
> 
> 
> Am 07.09.2012 um 17:12 schrieb Rich Bobo:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> If possible, I'd like to be able to write out TIFF images at a higher DPI 
>> than 72. I am taking images from Photoshop to Nuke and writing out TIFFs. 
>> They start out at 424 dpi in Photoshop and Nuke changes them to 72 dpi, the 
>> screen resolution. When the images are written out, they are written as 72 
>> dpi. It would be great if I could write the output files with the original 
>> 424 dpi value. Is this possible? If not, I guess I'll have to re-save them 
>> in Photoshop...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Rich
>> 
>> 
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