It is the number of pixels displayed on your screen that represent one inch of length in print. PPI stands for Pixels Per Inch, and it pretty self explanatory. (For a period of time, DPI was used to refer to both printing and screen, but it caused quite a lot of confusion.) What you want to be concerned about is PPI. Eventually the human eye really can’t tell the difference.) The DPI an image is printed at, however, has nothing to do with the image itself or with your drawing it. (A home inkjet printer, for instance, is usually capable of 300-600 DPI max.) The higher the DPI, the crisper the image will look. A printer typically has a range of DPI it is capable of, with lower DPIs often consuming less ink. DPI stands for Dots Per Inch, and is a term referring to the number of tiny dots of ink a printer will place per inch of paper. This one comes up a lot with people who have done a bit of research on printing and gotten themselves a bit confused. Honestly, most of your customers won’t terribly mind. Finally, if you’re new to the world of prints and don’t really feel like diving in to all of this nonsense quite yet you can always use good old 8.5"x11". Play around with the canvas sizes a bit and see what sort of aspect ratio you like composing pictures in best. If you’re less concerned about having - or even specifically don’t want to have - the same image in different sizes, you’re probably just best off using whatever size you feel suits the image best. If you want to offer the same image in a multitude of sizes, a 2:3 aspect ratio is probably the way to go. This means that if you have a 12"x18" image, you can easily make prints prints of any of those other sizes. 4"圆" has the added benefit of having a very common aspect ratio - 4圆, 8x12, 10x15, and 12x18 all have a 2:3 aspect ratio. 4"圆" is probably the smallest print most people are going to be interested in purchasing, and it is usually very easy to find good deals on 4圆s so it’s a good starting point. Anything larger than that and you’re getting into poster sizes, which I’ll cover later. Most print shops are more geared towards photographer than illustration, so the paper sizes they offer are going to follow photographic and frame-related standards. There are a lot of paper sizes to choose from and sometimes making a decision on this front can get kind of intimidating. The questions I run into most often from AA newcomers all have to do with prints “What size prints should I sell?” “What DPI should I draw at?” “How do I keep the colours from printing out muddy?” These are all really good questions! Lets try to answer them, shall we? This may seem pretty basic to Artist’s Alley veterans but it can be bamboozling for the unitiated. Prints are probably the single item most commonly bought/sold in the artist’s alley, but they can be surprisingly tough to get right.
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