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Spent 2 years rendering everything at 300 DPI for web... total rookie move
I was putting all my digital paintings at 300 DPI and wondering why my file sizes were massive and uploads took forever. A client finally asked me why my portfolio site was loading so slow, and when I checked, each image was like 50 MB. Someone in a Discord server pointed out web only needs 72 DPI and I felt so dumb. Has anyone else made this kind of basic resolution mistake early on?
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angelamurphy14d ago
Oh come on, 300 DPI is way better for future-proofing your stuff if anyone ever wants to print it, and most modern screens actually look sharper at higher resolutions even if they can't technically display every pixel. Plus those tiny file sizes from 72 DPI look awful on retina displays, so you were probably making the right call for quality.
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shane_morgan14d ago
Wait, wait, wait. You're telling me someone actually tried to argue that 72 DPI was a good idea for anything other than web graphics from 1998? I honestly thought that ship had sailed years ago. I mean, I get that old habits die hard but that's like insisting on saving everything as a GIF just because it worked on dial-up. The retina display thing really sealed it for me, those screens make low-res stuff look absolutely mushy and blurry, it's night and day when you've got a 300 DPI file open on them.
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