What DPI for desktop wallpapers

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Kugar13
May 20, 2007
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I am interested in making desktop wallpapers (800 x 600 and 1024 x 768), but was unsure what DPI/Pixels per inch I should use. Any suggestions?
I’m using RGB 16 bit. Is that correct as well?

Thank you!

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Bob Levine
May 20, 2007
PPI (note, the DPI is for printers) is irrelevant. Only pixel count matters. So 800×600 at 722 ppi or 800 ppi will yield the same result.

And 8 bit will be just fine.

Bob
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Kugar13
May 21, 2007
Thanks Bob! Is there somewhere I can find this info collectively? Like a guide or something? I know many of my questions are ignorant. If I knew where to find the info I wouldn’t be bothering you guys on here with some of these questions.

Thanks again!
DM
Don_McCahill
May 21, 2007
Kugar

Google and Wikipedia are both very good.
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Bob Levine
May 21, 2007
I wish. <g>

Bob
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Kugar13
May 21, 2007
Looks like you do Bob!

Can you say crazed stalking photoshop fan that needs a restraining order?

LOL!
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Bob Levine
May 21, 2007
Honestly, I don’t even rate compared to some of the others here. It seems with every new release I know even less.

I use PS for print and web stuff almost exclusively so the rest of the stuff is just more to learn.

Bo
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Ed_Hannigan
May 21, 2007
The manual and Help are good things to glance through. Plus there are scads of Photoshop resources on the web.
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Kugar13
May 21, 2007
No matter how dumb/elementary/trivial the questions I ask on here I always try to look em up first. I know it seems like I don’t (based on the questions I post), but I do. I find the easy questions are hard to find and the hard questions are easy to find. Ok, now laugh! LOL

Thanks for the help guys! I don’t know what I would do without….
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John_Joslin
May 21, 2007
Why don’t you just try it? You will probably find that the ppi is irrelevant. In Windows XP you can right-click on any JPG file and set it as the desktop background. It can then be centered, tiled or stretched using the display properties dialog.
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Don_McCahill
May 21, 2007
It seems with every new release I know even less.

Tell me about it. I got certified as ACE for PS 6. Now I am a complete moron (well, not quite) with CS2.

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