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Newbie: Question about canvas sizes


Beverly Dugar

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Just learned of paint.net today and  trying to learn what I can.  I am interested in creating a poster size of 24 x 36 - is that possible with paint.net?  Will it be good for professional printing?

 

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Hello Beverly and welcome to the forum.

Paint.net should be able to handle this job.

Two things we need to know:

1. Are the dimensions you gave in inches or centimeters?

2. What level of detail will be shown - tiny fine lines or large block text? We need to know this to get an idea of the print quality you're after.

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Ah yes, but if this is a poster with "WARNING - ROCKS" on it you could happily use 200dpi and still get it professionally printed. It would look Ok because it would be designed to be read from some metres away.

 

I asked about the size because it didn't seem to conform to the A? paper sizes (http://www.papersizes.org/a-paper-sizes.htm). Thanks for the clarification. How come you guys don't just use A1 (23.4"x 33.1")? :mrgreen:

 

@Beverly: 

 

24" x 36" x 300DPI (high resolution printing) = a canvas size of 7200 x 10800 pixels.

 

24" x 36" x 200DPI (medium resolution printing) = a canvas size of 4800 x 7200 pixels.

 

If in doubt - always go for the higher resolution.

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How come you guys don't just use A1 (23.4"x 33.1")? :mrgreen:

Because 24"x36" is exactly 2 feet by 3 feet. :)

 

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