[ExonGep]

Hello guys, as you see i'm a Photoshop n00b. I need some recommendation of what is the best image size and resolution to draw and paint?
Thanks in advance ^_^

[Chruser]

It depends on what kind of work you want to do, and HOW you want to accomplish it. If you want to paint something, you can always start off very small (where the dimensions are in the hundreds of pixels), rough in the details, then resize up the picture to concentrate more on details. Or, just start large and zoom out. It'll give you a better viewpoint when painting, at least it does so in my case.

I only have 256 mb of ram, and my canvas size is usually around 2000-5000 pixels (72 dpi) for both the width and height. If you have the memory and space on your hard drive, work large. You can always scale it down at will. If you work on a really small canvas and resize it up, then you're going to get a lot of ugly and blurry pixel approximations.

[coldn3ss]

Hi. I always work with canvases at 4961x3508 (a3) and at a resoultion of 300 dpi. but if u hav a small HD, I would recommend using half of that. since the images can get up to 1gig in worksize...
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