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aNoah · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2000 3:36 pm

What resolutions does everyone run? What monitor sizes? How big do you make your work? I see some pretty large images around here (1920x1920!).

How do you go about painting those if you run say 1280x1024? Do you zoom out, do general work, and then zoom in for more detail?

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I'm running 1600x1200 @ 120hz

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CapnPyro · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2000 3:48 pm

Hah, Visigoth me too. What kinda monitor? Mines a LaCie Electron Blue 22

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aNoah · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2000 4:13 pm

oh, please mention your monitor size... cuz 1600x1200 doesn't work all that well on a 19'. The text is a little too small.

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Dakkan · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2000 4:23 pm

1600x1200 on a 19" monitor... (i know what u mean by the small font thing. gets annoying a lot of times). i'm hoping to get a new 21" or 22" to work along side the one i have. but money doesn't fly out of my ass, hehe, so i'm fine with what i have now

Guy · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2000 4:33 pm

damn.. im only at 1152x864 on a 19" view sonic. e771 to be exact

Gecko · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2000 4:38 pm

Well, I've got a 15" monitor, capable of running 800x600 without flickering :O.
With photoshop this calls for some adaptation, pushing all the floating menus out of the screen so more painting area is revealed :]
Anyway, whenever I start to work on a pic, I open a blank 800x600 px pic and start sketching. When I come up with something nice, i usually double the resolution to 1600x1200 or something else if I crop the pic on the way.
Next (and the most time consuming) thing is to fix the pic, add detail, then resize down to 50% and voila. This is how I get the level of detail I like without worrying about every single pixel.

Did this give any answers?

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aNoah · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2000 4:43 pm

Well... when I saw the words 15" and 800x600 I suddenly felt good about running 1280x1024... so I have no more questions/complains.
And yeah, I have had to do stuff at 800x600 before... and it was not he most pleasant experience.

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I'm on a 19" Viewsonic PF790

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Guy · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2000 4:51 pm

whoa!!! hold on there aNoah!!

isnt 1280x1024 that funny res that makes circles look like elipses, cause it has a funny ratio

i just bumped my res up to 1280x960. i think thats the normal one.. maybe i got them confused

aNoah · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2000 4:57 pm

yes... it is that crazy resolution... but you just stretch your monitor ratio... and it compensates. Standard resolutions are 4 to 3 (horizontal to vertical). 1280x1024 is 5 to 4, so you can compensate by changing your horizontal value until the image occupies the entire monitor, because the monitor is 4/3. I don't think I had any problems with it.

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Rob M · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2000 7:28 pm

aNoah: You said in your earlier post that at 1600x1200 your fonts are too small.

Go to your display settings (right click on desktop-->properties) and check the settings tab. Click the ADVANCED button.
Under the GENERAL tab theres a menu box entitled "Font Size". It will, by default be set to "small fonts", just set it to "Large Fonts". That just might solve your font problem.

I run my screen at 1280x960 by the way (19" Monitor).

egerie · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2000 1:50 pm

17" 1024x768 resolution.
can't really paint overly huge image sizes because my RAM and CPU start rowing on sand after a few brush strokes..
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