[herk]

Hey there, new here to this site, but ive lurked for a bit. I was just wondering, i recently got painter 8, and have had photoshop for a while, and i'm still trying to grasp the basics. When it come to the size of your canvas and how many pixels per inch you use, what is your preference. And if i am going to be drawing a comic sized page, what is your preference there? Anyway, any response would be appreciated. I'm brand new to this digital art thing, though i've been drawing forever. Thanks.

[Tomasis]

depends of your computer and memory othwerwise I could recommend 3500x2500 but if you paint for digital use only then it would be enough 2000x1500, sketch 1000x1000/500. 300px per inch would be good if you're planing to print.

but if you're new in digital art, then you can experiment as you like. You should use smaller sizes if you are sketching fast.. use memory effectively. You need think about adding layers which should add much more memory

it depends too how large rez do you use for the monitor.. I'm using 1600x1200 so 1000x1000 is enough for me to make sketches

I think so..

[herk]

thanks heaps for the reply. I'm still experimenting and having fun doing it. My comp is pretty decent memory wise, and things are running pretty smooth(crosses fingers). Any other thoughts out there?

[Mikko K]

Experiment with different canvas sizes, start small, scale up when you add detail and so on.

If you are not going to print, I don't think you'll ever need more than 3000 pixels width / height. A good idea is to never zoom closer than 100%, if you feel like you need a closer look for details, scale your image larger (detailed landscape or something). At least in older versions of Painter, the brushes didn't look good when used in too small sizes so scaling the image instead seemed like a good choice.

Don't worry about the DPI setting, it doesn't matter if you work for screen viewing.