What DPI do you use for iphone pictures? 72?

orbnoob

hey, what DPI do you use for pictures for iphone pictures, is it different when developing for iphone 4 vs iphones without retina display?

orbnoob

k, thanks

JohnPapiomitis

Any images in gamesalad regardless of the platform have to be 72 dpi

cheers

JohnPapiomitis

Its the same thing as far as im aware.

JohnPapiomitis

Yes i know and know what they stand for..but as far as gamesalad is concerned its the same thing. Make a image and set the dpi to 72 in photoshop and save as .png. Now open the image in the built in preview on the mac and go to tools resize, youll see resolution at the bottom and itll set the 72 ppi. The only options preview on mac show are pixels per inch and pixels per centimeters. As long as its 72 ppi your good. Also did a search and theres a bunch of other threads confirming this

cheers

ozboybrian

I've had so many arguments with Artists about it needing to be 72DPi. But i've been right each time.

Clouds

@JohnPapiomitis:
"Make a image and set the dpi to 72 in photoshop"

Like you say it doesn't really matter what you call it, but ppi is more correct than dpi.
For example in Photoshop you will be setting the image to ppi (and not dpi as you say).

Basically pixels per inch is a measure of pixels (unsurprisingly!). And dots per inch is a measure of dots (unsurprisingly!).

Computers use pixels - print media uses dots.

Although they are used interchangeably these days, but if you were working in print you'd quickly get in trouble because to have a nice halftone screen you really want at least twice as many pixels to dots (so for standard magazine print at 150 dpi you need your file to be around 300ppi).

So strictly speaking . . . . . . ppi is correct.

Good I must have been bored to type that out. Forgive me.

: )

mynameisace

Now I'm bored after reading it

Ace

Clouds

@Ace:"Now I'm bored after reading it"

Welcome to my world !

dehecile

hey, this is orbnoob btw, im having a problem, im using 72 ppi but all my pictures look really pixleated, even if i make a circle it looks horrible. I am using pixlemator to make all my images

dehecile

im making them all at 72 dpi, im having trouble even making a simple circle look good, i need to make the circle touch the boarders because otherwise it will look like it's floating becuase im using collide. if i do that it looks cut off. everything i make except squares and rectangles look bad and im not sure why

Clouds

dehecile

Post a screen shot of the circle in pixlemator - and then a screen shot of the circle in the actual Gamesalad game.

MotherHoose

all curves/circles/text should be antialiased before being scaled down or converted to a lower dpi scale … i.e. smoothed

in your graphic creation program this option is usually in the section of Filters > Enhance > Antialias
1 click and things look better when scaled or @ 72dpi.

MH