I design and artwork all of my websites at 300dpi, as if print (can come in handy if you need to print your websites in a brochure etc.). I can't stand grainy images and if I work in 72dpi the results are crap. 'Save for web' from a 72dpi artboard will have worse results than a 300dpi artboard (plus you dont have to look at a poor quality all the way through). In fact I make all my designs in illustrator because anti aliasing can be a real bummer (especially for mobile - try 'view/pixel preview in Ai to see what I mean 15 x 15px (favicon stylee)).
Here's a very interesting link to what the brains could make for us..... http://swieskowski.net/carve/ Now that's save for web! I am really annoyed at the moment because my browser of choice is Safari. It's not managing the colours very well at all, when even the satanic IE sees what firefox does. One reason I can think of as to why this can be ON topic is if you have a background image set at 100% width and height it will stretch and shrink keeping the image in place. If it was high-res it would look better than low-res on a big window. Or maybe I just dreamt that in my first games with background images. I might have got that wrong, another way to put it is that I can make a 72dpi image, 100px x 100px and make it twice as big (resolution aside) via CSS. I'm a little drunk, sorry. CB On 11/08/2009, at 2:03 AM, tedd wrote: > At 10:33 AM -0700 8/10/09, Michael Stevens wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org >> [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Theresa >> Mesa >> On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Lalena wrote: >> >> It think it's still best to optimize your images for 72dpi - 96 max - >> because higher DPI images create larger file sizes, which make your >> web >> pages larger file sizes, which make them longer to download. >> >> ---- >> >> Image resolution has nothing to do with it's pixel size. For the >> web the >> only thing you have to worry about are the pixel dimensions. An >> 800x600 >> pixel image is going to display EXACTLY the same whether it is 72 >> dpi or 600 >> dpi. >> >> Mike > > > As odd as that sounds, that's true. > > It too me a while to understand that. > > Cheers, > > tedd > > > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
