Ugh! Don't even go there. This website's information is waaaaay, WAAAAY off the mark, mis-informed, and overly complicated. Anyone who's worked in design and/or graphics has spent years, and I mean YEARS trying to explain to the producers and the public the difference between print DPI and screen DPI. Joshua apparently wants to throw another wrench in the works--thanks Joshua--but he's, shall we say a few pixels short of a full-screen. Of course screens can have "slightly" different DPI in terms of how many pixels are displayed in an inch of screen space. That's not the point. It never was the point. Don't make it complicated, because it AIN'T. Screen DPI is static, print DPI is not. If you up the DPI in print, the image appears closer to photographic quality. If you up the psuedo DPI on-screen using an image editor like Photoshop, the image merely takes up more space on the screen--it doesn't get finer-grained like a photograph. No one cares if a screen's DPI is 96.3 or 72 or 86--fundamentally it's all the same. But a printer, printing a book or a game or whatever, will DEFINITELY care whether the aritst submits something at 300dpi, 1200dpi, or 72dpi, given the same final image size. For VASSAL, stick the resolution at 72 DPI and leave it there.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Uckelman Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [vassalengine] Re: Mod Size Thus spake "Brent Easton": [snip] > > In the language of resolution, computer screens display around 72 dpi. > This is approximately true if you have a 15" monitor at 800x600, but most likely your actual screen dpi is between 90 and 100. http://www.joahua.com/blog/2005/07/27/computer-screen-dpi-myth-and-other -misconceptions <http://www.joahua.com/blog/2005/07/27/computer-screen-dpi-myth-and-othe r-misconceptions> -- J. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vassalengine/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
