How Do You Adjust Dots Per Inch?
Adjusting dots per inch, or DPI, is one of the basic concepts in shooting and digitally editing photography you will need to get a good grasp of to make the best use of your digital SLR camera, and to get your prints and digital images looking their best. Adjusting dots per inch is easy enough, and varies little from one photo editing program to another. Get a good grasp on what dots per inch, commonly abbreviated to dpi, means. Also called pixels per inch, this measurement is used to determine the resolution of an image. An image with high dots per inch relative to a fixed size, for example 11 inches by 17 inches at 300 dots per inch, is much more useful in different situations. This is because the image can be blown up very big, or sized down very small, while still retaining its clear picture. Open up Adobe Photoshop. Open your image, and then in your menu in the top left corner of the screen, select the “Image” tab. Scroll down to where it says “Image size…” and click. Study the