Re: resolution for web sites

The 72/96 pixels per inch have nothing to do with physical size or screen
resolution (600x800 vs 1024x768). It is the manufacture specifications of
the display.

Knowing this, I set my Adobe photoshop display to 96 dpi (on my PC), just
the same way that I claibrated screen monitors for AutoCAD years ago. When
I fring up an image in Photoshop, the rulers are dead on, if measured by a
mechanical ruler, and a i inch image is 1 inch.

Better do a little more research.

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"Wayne J. Cosshall" <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry Stan but those measurements don't work in practice. In reality there
is not a consistent linkage between the physical dimensions and the
resolution. Lots of people run their monitors at a lower resolution than
they are capable of. This seems to be more of an issue on Windows than
Macs, as the variety of video cards and the range of modes cause some
users a lot of confusion and I have noticed many computer shops do not
preconfigure them sensibly for people.

At least for now, the 72/96 dpi is just a myth. All you can do is think in
terms of screen resolution in pixels and make sensible choices based on
what screen resolutions most people use and ow much screen space is lost
to menu bars, window borders and scroll bars.

Oh and one other issue I forgot in my previous post is that whilst most
are now using 1024 x 768 or larger screens, many data projectors are still
800 x 600 pixels. This can be an issue.

Cheers,

Wayne

Wayne J. Cosshall
Publisher, The Digital ImageMaker, http://www.dimagemaker.com/
Blog http://www.digitalimagemakerworld.com/
Publisher, Experimental Digital Photography
http://www.experimentaldigitalphotography.com
Personal art site http://www.cosshall.com/



Stan Beck wrote:
On a PC, a 96 x 96 pixels will be 1" x 1". On a Mac, 72 x 72 pixels will
be an image of 1" x 1". Most people are using PC's. If you want a 3" x
3" image, resize your image to 288 x 288 pixels.

If you make your image more than 800 pixels wide, you may have to scroll
left to right to see it. Most people find that annoying.



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