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Been asked to do pics for a business website upgrade and the business owners have been asked by Mr website design person to inform the photographer,

QUOTE "if you can advise the photographer that if he can make the images web based and 300dpi that would be great."

I have always supplied website images at 72 and used 300 for printing. PS save for web saves them at 72 so have things changed or is Mr website design person wrong?
 
Sounds odd to me, even the better monitors only display around the 100 ppi.
Just a thought does he mean full size available to them on the web for them to download?
 
I usually ask the website owners to ask their web designer what size they want the pics and I then supply images using PS save for web but that was the response.
 
Web based and 300dpi, I think he has made a slight error.

I would send him an email and just mention web use dpi is maximum of 72. So you can either provide them at that, or provide him the full 300dpi images.
 
jamiek said:
Web based and 300dpi, I think he has made a slight error.

I would send him an email and just mention web use dpi is maximum of 72. So you can either provide them at that, or provide him the full 300dpi images.
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Web based documents do not use DPI/PPI in any way it is irrelevant. Also when using Save for Web using Photoshop version prior to CS4, strips the PPI information it does not save at 72PPI that is what Photoshop will default to when that document is opened.
In CS4/5 it is possible to retain PPI information using SFW if you take the option to retain metadata.
 
DPI (actually PPI) is ONLY relevant when printing. I can give you a 300x300 pixel image and set the DPI to 300 and it will print 1" square. I can set it to 150DPI and it will print at 2" square. Saying the image is 300 DPI is also meaningless when you don't specify the pixel dimensions.

The guy/gal doesn't know what they are on about (or they do, and are not asking the question properly).
 
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