Dpi values for printing images from photoshop?

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Well I just had the unfortunate experience of not knowing what I was doing in terms of dpi resolution in an image that I painted in photoshop, and when it came time to print it, let's just say it was less than splendid.

The problem, as I understand it is that I painted the image at 75 dpi. But I'm wondering is there a way--that will make a difference--that I can increase the dpi, after having painted it, so that I can print the image at a higher resolution? Thanks

Keywords: photoshop, paint, photo shop, design, painting, raster, vector, layer, mask.
 
Let me guess... Lots of chunky pixels?

The professional print resoloution is 300 DPI, for medium quality home printing you can get away with 150+

If you already have an image and want to scale it to a higher DPI using photoshop simply open the image, choose !image> image size" and then adjust the DPI (the image will appear to be a lot larger on your screen because screens always display at 72dpi, however the actual print size will remain the same as you specify)

If you designed your image in 72 DPI then it might not be perfect quality when you upscale but photoshop does a pretty good job of it, so it's worth a shot.

In future, decide what you want to do with the image once it's complete and set your DPI accordingly (72 for viewing on the computer and 300 for fine quality print)

Some designers prefer to work in 72DPI while they sketch because it uses less of your processor's resources and space on the screen and then upscale the drawing to work on the fine details.

This only applies to stuff you wanna print :-)
 
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