Diane,

I'll answer your question by taking a bit of a different route. Instead of
concentrating on photos, I'll relate to you what I do with the DW List
cartoons I create:

Generally, I make two sizes - a so-called "hi -res" version and one that's a
lot smaller. I make the hi rez version for people that might have color
printers and/or large monitors. Even though the artwork is still 72 dpi,
many times you can still get a good print from the larger version of my
cartoons - the only place where it is really noticeable is in the lettering
of the balloons but if you download the art, then shrink it before printing,
the 72 dpi hardly becomes an issue - unless any of them would go to print
(which is why they are all saved at 72 dpi - that's a safe guard from anyone
trying to "steal" my art and publish it as their own. If they want to try
and push off a 72 dpi image in print as their own, I feel sorry for them).

But regardless of all that, I try very hard not to make my cartoons for the
list any wider than 1200 pixels wide. For the most part, they are generally
in the 800 pixel range because I'm still trying to be "web and monitor
friendly". :-)

My "rule of thumb" is this: "if an image can fit comfortably on my 17"
monitor, then chances are, it's going to fit comfortably in a large
percentage of other people's monitors too".

I know that doesn't help you with the photographs, but thought it might be
interesting to share how I deal with my cartoons as there tends to be a lot
of airbrushing and blending effects on all of my colored creations.

:-)

-Chris


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Co-author: "Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX"
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> On 12/1/03 9:13 PM, Diane Duncan mused:
>
>> I optimised it to 10% of it's scanned size, so it would
>> be web-friendly. I agree, that's pretty small, but how
>> does an artist decide on things like that? Do you just
>> make an "executive decision" and bite the creative bullet,
>> or are there guidelines?


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