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The Beef
Joined: 02 Jul 2009
Posts: 4
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 Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:26 am Post subject: Lost Quality |
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I've made myself a wallpaper and was pretty damn happy to see it on my desktop when I saw the lost quality of it. I saved it as a .png. When it's viewed in PS it looks great and then when I put it on my desktop you can see all these ugly little blotches.
Is it because I used 8 bit and 72 pixel/inch resolution for the image?
My desktop is 1440x900
Help plox
http://www.cubeupload.com/files/206200untitled1.png <That's it |
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iDad
Joined: 22 Feb 2009
Posts: 767
OS: iMac 24" 1TB harddrive OS10.5.6
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It looks fine to me I just blew it up full screen I have a 24"screen
1680X1050 the blotches you see are white, correct? I believe that is added along with brush you used |
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hawkeye
Joined: 14 May 2009
Posts: 2377
Location: Mesa, Az
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Beyond what iDad said...Don't use 72 PPI, it's a thing of the past. I can almost guarantee your monitor's resolution is greater than that.
To find out, measure the actual width of your monitor and divide the pixels by that width. For example if the width was 16" width, 1440/16=90 PPI not 72. |
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The Beef
Joined: 02 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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Ok well I did that technique but it didn't help. 1440/15.4 = 93.something, so I just made the new wallpaper 100 to be safe. And I made it 16 bit instead of 8. |
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The Beef
Joined: 02 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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Oh wow lol
I tried this just in case. I went to the direct link of the pic, and from there I set it as my background, and the quaality is perfect.
So why won't it do it from my computer? :| |
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RUGRLN
Joined: 24 Jun 2009
Posts: 8
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OK Firstly. If you made it in Photoshop and it was raster. You cannot go and change the DPI/PPI and retain quality.
Secondly, if you're on Vista. Don't choose Set As Background from left click. It will almost always be bad quality. Instead right click on desktop, choose Personalize>Desktop Bckgrd> and Browse to your file. Then the Windows Photo Gallerry engine is started so the picture is laoded in HQ |
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