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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2024
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In today’s video we are talking about the obsession with 300 DPI when it comes to selling printables, digital downloads, and of course- print on demand items!
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No es una mentira, es un estándar para impresión offset.
La resolución para impresión digital puede variar entre 240 y 30 ppi, dependiendo del tamaño y la distancia de visualización.
My head hurts lol. Thank you for the explanation. I'm still a little confused, but I live in a state of confusion most of the time LOL.
few things to note because some of the explanations were confusing...
When designing on your computer dpi/ppi can be irrelevant (and many online design programs only use pixels). For example:
1000 x 1000 pixels @ 300dpi/ppi
1000 x 1000 pixels @ 200dpi/ppi
1000 x 1000 pixels @ 100dpi/ppi
These will all produce the same quality files (they all contain the same amount of data). DPI/PPI only becomes relevant when, you start designing files in real-life sizes, for example, 12x12" @ 300dpi/ppi, as it will alter the number of pixels in the image.
300dpi/ppi is only really required if you have fine lines, for example, text.
We used to go as low as 120dpi when printing large graphics for exhibition stands etc, as they were just not designed to be read up close.
It just depends on the style of the graphic printed, how its printed, and how that product is used.
As someone who worked in a print shop, I can’t say this loud enough: dpi is not what anyone but the printer needs to be concerned with. The ONLY thing that matters is your final resolution for example 5000x5000. There are 3 factors, dpi, measurement size, and final resolution. All that matters is final resolution because the printer will sort out the measurement and dpi ratio themselves.
Mootivating as always Mey 😄
Thank you for this information. I had an small idea on how dpi works but you cleared up a lot of questions I had. I have been using Fourthwall and I follow what their program says is good or not while designing. But I didn't completely understand what it meant until now.
Could you let us know if the framed poster can work as a dry erase board too?
You were quite informative today, as I always stress over DPI.
Brilliant video and very informative. Thank you 😊
Graphics don’t pixelate like photos would. I’d be interested to see photos on those posters rather than graphics.
If a photo is printed on an inkjet printer, the difference between one printed at 150 dpi and one printed at 300 dpi is negligible, even in detailed parts of the image. 200 dpi, even printing a photo on an inkjet printer is definitely a safe bet, in my experience with smooth gradients for the sky, etc.
Its at 2.00am but we will be there. I went down the rabbit hole again trying to attain just that. The design says it is then in zazzle it says 'nope' so you increase and again 'nope' then comes the attempted murder of my laptop. Thx for this. 😅😅 laptop is fine by the way. Hubby saved it.
well, if the design isn't good enough, uploading it bigger "by force" reduces the DPI even more.
@@MeyTribe WOW. Thanks.
I uploaded my first attempts at a i inti photoshop and was surprised to see it was 72 dpi. The only way I could get it to at least 150dpi was by decreasing the image size. This meant that the art prints etc were too small for Redbubble. How do I get the initial 72 dpi to be larger
Thanks for the information!
I love the print of the orange cow! Have to add that also to my shop ❤
Thank you! This is one of my pet peeves. DPI in the metadata is advisory at best. It is otherwise meaningless because actual DPI is a function of the pixel size and the output size.
For example, go to the Printify designer and you will see DPI change dynamically as you resize your graphic. If you make it too big in relation to the available pixels, it will warn you. Printify completely ignores DPI in the metadata.
I try to be accurate and honest. I give the pixel dimensions and then add something like “prints 20 by 30 inches at 300 DPI” because DPI only has meaning for a specific output size.
Would 300 dpi images be too much for fabrics for Zazzle. I know they say around 150dpi. Just want to know whether I should be saving the image in too different dpi sizes to put on the different products or whether I can use the same 300dpi image on most products?
There's no such thing as too much, only too little :)
Thankyou, that’s a lot of help.
Great video I learned A Lot.
Happy to hear that
72 dpi for web, is also a misnomer. The ONLY thing that matters is the longest side in pixels of your file, regardless of dpi or ppi when publishing online. Do your own experiment, display a 1600 wide image with 72 dpi resolution, and a 1600 wide image at 300 dpi resolution, and the image is displayed exactly at the same size on your monitor, screen, etc.
I learned a long time ago, that inkjet printers typically have a line screen of around 85 lines per inch, and that any file for print will print perfectly fine in detail if you multiply the line screen amount of 85 x 2 to arrive at a resolution suitable for print. I've printed a lot of images at 150 dpi that I could not distinguish from the same file at 300 dpi (same size print). Obviously you start with the higher resolution file, and then reduce the resolution in a way that allows the print dimension to enlarge. Although with AI there are great upscalers, where you can do the opposite and arrive at a printable resolution.
Anyway, I know there is a lot more to all of this, but that has been my experience.
which tool do you use to upscale your AI images to enhance the quality before uploading them to pod websites ?
No tool.
I either use them for products - such as the ones I have shown on the video, or recreate them using Procreate.
There will be a video on lexica on Sunday, and another deeper one of all my uses next week. (no upscaler in either of them)
Perfect. Thank you!@@MeyTribe
Zazzle doesn’t’t give the print dimensions in pixels until after you do it wrong. It’s kind of a nuisance cuz I often have to re-do it. Like images for mugs have to be 1480x1480 print area. Very different from Printiful which is 2538x1211 @ 300 dpi. So the 1211 is not enough to meet their criteria. When you ask Zazzle about it, they refer you to their guide which still doesn’t give print area dimensions of different products. Which means I have to re-size it altogether differently. This has deterred me from using Zazzle cuz they don’t state ahead of time. Unless I’am missing something. Another Yotuber said to use the inches they give you in Product side bar and convert to pixels. That doesn’t work cuz the inches don’t pertain to the print area. They pertain to the size of the object. Am I missing something?
I mean, I can't argue with the fact that not every product requires 300 dpi/ppi. So if you know for a fact that you're only going to be working with products that require less, then I guess you can choose to opt for less than 300 dpi/ppi. However, if you actually make the effort to make sure that the image files are in 300 dpi/ppi, then that certainly gives you more options for what products you can put the images on. You might start out only wanting to sell products that require lowers dpi/ppi, but could change your mind later and want to expand. Afterall, you can never have too much dpi/ppi, only too little, so it's better to err on the side of working with higher dpi/ppi settings. At least that's how I've been working and how I'll continue to do things. It's certainly easier than keeping track of which products need what dpi/ppi.
I feel like the biggest exception to this is if you're working with patterns that are meant to be tiled, so you can just repeat the pattern as many times as you need to get the image big enough for your needs regardless of dpi/ppi.
That’s pretty much how I work as well. Making an image big enough for print on demand playing cards is all well and good, but if I then want to put that on a t-shirt, nope, not gonna work. Even patterns I follow that rule. The original untiled image may not look good at a small size regardless of tiling.
Honestly, I try to do that even for patterns as well, but if someone wasn't able to for whatever reason, it's probably something that you don't need to be as strict with the actual dpi as long as the image is a decent size as far as pixels goes.
Actually, not everyone is in the position to create something that big and with 300 D{I to begin with.
With my previous ipad in 300 DPI my maximum size was 7200x7200 pixels, and 1 layer.
It was very useful for me to know that the result from it can actually be "stretched" larger on a product that requires less DPI.
This also helps people, knowing that fact that they can use less DPI, in cases in which the app/platform has a weight restriction and your uploaded file is too heavy.
This is also helpful for people who get their clipart from Creative Fabrica...
I would never design any less than 300 dpi even knowing that things like canvases and T-shirts etc. can get away with 150 dpi. And when I scan I always scan at 600 dpi minimum so I 100 percent agree with you.
This still doesn't change the fact that there are products out there that do require 300 dpi and some in quite large sizes. So I guess creators need to figure out if those are things they want to be able to put their art on now or in the future. If the answer is yes, then they need to be using software/assets that can handle that, and there are a lot of art programs out there that can do this, some even cheap/free. If a creator is content with products that don't require 300 dpi, then it's not something they have to worry about as much. I feel like this is basically the same thing I was saying in my original reply, and that I personally choose to work in 300 dpi because I want to maximize my options.
This isn't meant to be judgemental about what software anyone is using. It's more about the fact that someone just starting out might be perfectly happy just putting their designs on lower dpi products, but then down the road might decide they want to use 300 dpi products and find themselves quite frustrated that their existing designs won't work on them. So I'm just encouraging people to stop and think about what their long term goals might be for monetizing their designs.
I have had the problem before of a file size being too large for a POD site's limits. Sometimes I'll deal with it by scaling the image down in terms of length/width if that's feasible for whatever the product is. Other times I might handle it by exporting a jpg in less than 100% quality. Sometimes reducing the jpg quality by a small amount can really reduce the file size without noticeably affecting how the image looks (Society6 customer support taught me to do this when I was having issues). If I'm exporting a png file, then I can export it with a higher level of compression to get the file size down somewhat. Of course I'm doing this in photoshop, and I don't know if procreate has this capability, but there are various alternatives that do which someone could import their procreate art into if needed.
So is it better to create your image really big then size it down?
No. It's best to create an image in the size you wanna use it, and maybe even bigger. As big as possible.
However, some people are worried that their images are not big enough to be printed with 300 DPI - hence, making this video.
Thank you! This eases my mind about the smaller dpis I have. But it sounds like I should focus on only smaller products. My brain. it's weird. lol. I would need to look up how to calculate if my dpi will work every single time. That type info doesn't seem to "stick". lol. That's why I try to get everything to 300 to be sure it'll work on big products.
Ah, Lexica. I have it but my year runs out next month. I was going to cancel since I don't get great results, probably my prompts. And it's all so tiny. I must be doing something wrong with it.
There’s a video dropping tomorrow on how I use it for clip art & a more extensive tutorial or walk through later the week or next.
My prompts are SO basic !!!
And yeah
Low DPI & small pixel size yes - it means small items
But hey - people make whole shops with notebooks and stickers and mugs :)
@@MeyTribe Yay for the video! I'll try really hard to make the premiere. True. I may just make a sticker shop. Right now, my sales are mostly stickers, tees and socks. I really need a way to speed up my process and having to do some draw-overs and upscaling, cleaning up art from the AI is very time-consuming.
@@annadreamsart9756 it won’t have a premier
The lexica full tutorial will probably have one, but this one will just be made available in about 10 hours
Nothing locks in the DPI. If you enlarge a certain size…you are asking the DPI to provide the same detail at a greater size and the image can pixelate.
Your Resolution can be 150dpi at 100% at that should be clear & crisp on a Desktop printer.
If you want a perfectly clear image for a fashion magazine or product packaging where you want to see no pixelation (or steps) on edges, 300dpi is the norm.
Remember to put your quality resolution into your image or file size at 100% of expected output and you can always reduce down and maintain clarity, but the larger you go, the more chance of distorted images.
And you can always remove detail and clarity from an image, but you can never add it past what it was shot at or created in.
And if you turn your line art to a black & white vector…that is resolution free and scale never matters.
14:2 4000 pixel / 19 inches = 211 dpi. The math is correct.
My dpi is over 1200 and so so so so so so so so so so crisp
I think that the higher the better, but many people don't know that they don't need 300 DPI and it's preventing them from starting. Hence the video. Though, again, wow!
@@MeyTribe 😓sorry for the many So's 😅
@@MeyTribe i plan on watching your marketing videos today. coz i suck at marketing, i tend to make way to many designs but not make any social templates for marketing. then i end up with way to many designs
Never apologize for emphasizing crispiness!
@@Invad3rDiz A lot of people have this issue... Honestly- it's easier to create than actually start thinking of a marketing plan, and most RUclipsrs tell people to just create and create.... I personally see marketing as more valuable than quantity. I was making loads with my old RB shop that had 20 designs cause it was promoted in a huge blog.
You went cow crazy. 😂
I always was... it was just behind the camera LOL
Export canva designs with pdf print.. then import your pdf into gimp with 1200 DPi. Edit export and shrink image.. therefore you lose little to none quality
Solid advice! (although I personally hate Gimp, if I need that I'd probably try doing that with CSP)
@@MeyTribe 🤭i did not expect you would reply😅 yeah i only use gimp because of the free option.
I was actually finally sitting down to catch up on some comment backs.. I haven't had a sit down like that in a long time, and I am pretty sure I have 2 years worth of comments to reply too LOL
I got CSP for free the first time I got my Wacom tablet, back in 2019.
@@MeyTribe Ohh gosh I wish you good luck and a Cup of coffee for that🤣☕
Sooo... Would you say you might like cows?! 😁😁💖🐄🐮
Hi Mey. Big fan of your videos, but you have been using the wrong terminology in this video. DPI and PPI are terms that have become confused since computers were able to generate and display images. Just for clarity, PPI is the correct terminology for digital images, but it has no relation to mechanically printed resolution. PPI refers to how an image will display on a computer screen. 72 PPI is the standard average resolution for displaying an image on a computer screen. In some cases, 72 PPI may suffice for printing if the pixels are not stretched too much when enlarging a digital image. When using AI generated images, it is especially important to upscale the images so that they will print well.
DPI (dots per inch) is an old printing metric that refers to an image that has a dot pattern - like newspapers and comic books - to print well. 300 DPI was considered the best average resolution for mechanical printing methods.vNow days, depending on what the finished product is going to be or the printing process used, a printer may need to convert a digital image into a dot pattern for it to print properly.
A 300 PPI image is a high resolution that ensures a good print job; however, as you pointed out, 300 PPI is not always necessary to get a good printed image. It depends on the printing process used and how far the pixels are stretched when enlarging an image. Just to be safe, it's best to use 300 PPI when your are uploading digital files that will be printed on multiple sizes of products. Black and white images with no color (like for coloring books) and not a lot of gradient can be a lower resolution.
Hope this helps.
Using them interchangeably cause the different between them is almost none when it comes to the end result. (But yeah, I know that they are different)
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, using the terms interchangeably is what confuses people in the first place. We look to influencers like you to set things straight. Keep up the great videos!
at 19:45 the front leg on that cow needs to be fixed. it's very wonky and obvious that it was ai created.
Yeah, I wanted low DPI for this video, I thought it would be weird to just spend hours and create very small illustrations on Procreate, when i can use AI and get the products to see if the printing comes out well.
You should have a pet cow, please tell me you have a pet cow.
I wish I could... I was thinking about taking one from the farmer, but it would be hard in my 1 bedroom apartment LOL