SoCal how do you get the dpi to change with your images ( i use jasc psp7 and corel pspX)

The stuff for my shop needs to end up at 300 DPI ,so to get a better quality product I just got in the habit of working in a higher resolution. That way I can resize the images to more templates without losing quality.

sweeet ... thanks for the info i know where to look for that so now i know what it does awesome thanks again

Looking forward to these. By the way, a 2000 x 2000 pixel image at 700dpi is exactly the same resolution as a 2000 x 2000 pixel image at 7dpi. It's only if you get into commercial printing that it will make a difference, and even then I'd hope that any printer worth their salt would query it. ;)

7 dpi? Is that a typo Bob?  That just seems like a really little number to me. Remember, you're talking to dummy girl here who cringes at 72 dpi on a poser render ;)

I do submit the final images for printing at 300 dpi. But for me to work on them prior to that, I've found  700 dpi works best. It's easier for me to see the details and it resizes without losing quality. 
I order a sample of every kind of item I sell to double check the details and so far they look really nice (if I say so myself  :blushing:).

I found my information from Wise Geek.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-dpi.htm

I think your link about dpi causes more confusion then it does help in this case.

As far as your computer is concerned, dpi doesn't even exist, a pixel's a pixels to it. When you zoom to 100% its gonna be the same size on screen no matter what you have the dpi set to.

So while your image may sound super highres because its 700dpi, its still only 2000² pixels wide/tall. For that matter, no matter what you set the dpi to, its always going to be a 2000² pixel image. Changing dpi has no bearing on the number of actual pixels contained in the image.

The place where dpi comes into play is when you take your image to print. A 2000² pixel image like you've got, printed at 300dpi will be roughly 6 and 2/3 inches printed, printed at 700 dpi would make the image about 2.875 inches, printing at 72 dpi would make it about 28 inches, and Bob's 7 dpi would make the image about 24 feet.

All the images still contain 2000 pixels, they're just spread farther apart or packed more tightly together depending on the dpi used when you print [and only when you print], thus making the image larger or smaller, but there's still only 2000 pixels there.

So dpi means nothing inside your computer, the only thing that matters is how many pixels the image has, and that's what Bob was getting at, so his "7 dpi" wasn't a typo, he's correct. I hope this helps make some more sense out of it, dpi can be rather confusing, and often gets misused now-a-days, took me awhile b4 I got my head around it.

cool now i have some clue as to what that's all about thanks Warlock279