Dabrowski
9-24-05, 03:50 PM
I just had a guy give me a colored pencil/line drawing of a logo, about 4x6. He wanted it scanned and the background (whitespace on paper) removed. He said he wanted to use it in a variety of media, just to see how he feels about it.
I scanned it in at 600dpi and removed the background. Then I resized the actual image space to about 2x3 and saved it as a png, and then shrunk it down to about 300px wide to use for the web. Does that sound sufficient? I'm more fluent with pixels, than dpi, and I get confused. If I shrunk an image down to use on the web, would that necessarily print out horribly? Did I need to supply him with both versions? And the only time I hear about finished sizes (4x6, etc) is when discussing print resolution. I think I just gave him a middle-of-the-road image to work with to print out.
Anyway, I just said, use the big one for print graphics, and the small one for the web. He looked at me funny, and I rephrased it as "use the smaller file, and if you feel it looks lousy, use the bigger one."
How does this all work?
I scanned it in at 600dpi and removed the background. Then I resized the actual image space to about 2x3 and saved it as a png, and then shrunk it down to about 300px wide to use for the web. Does that sound sufficient? I'm more fluent with pixels, than dpi, and I get confused. If I shrunk an image down to use on the web, would that necessarily print out horribly? Did I need to supply him with both versions? And the only time I hear about finished sizes (4x6, etc) is when discussing print resolution. I think I just gave him a middle-of-the-road image to work with to print out.
Anyway, I just said, use the big one for print graphics, and the small one for the web. He looked at me funny, and I rephrased it as "use the smaller file, and if you feel it looks lousy, use the bigger one."
How does this all work?