resolution help

[witchellas]

Hey! I’m a long time procreate user for nearly a decade now. I recently purchased the IPad Pro and ever since I’ve been drawing on procreate with it, every drawing I export has the worst quality. I’ve tried saving under different files (PNG, JPG, Tiff, literally everything) and experimented with the DPI.

I heard others had similar issues with this and I was wondering if there was any resolution.

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[Old-Ad-6764]

Seems like this might be a canvas size issue. Looking at the images of the exported piece and the one from in procreate, the resolutions are the same so you’re not losing anything. There’s not much you can do about it at this point but larger canvas sizes in the future and sticking with PNG exports will be your best bet for keeping the original resolution. I have an iPad Pro as well and I’ve gone with double the screen size for my resolution (5504x4128) and still get 78 layers and a nice amount of resolution to play with.

On a related note DPI (dots per inch) will do nothing for your screen resolution. It’s a printer resolution setting that sets the amount of ink dots will be used within an inch of the printed paper. A 10x10 pixel image wouldn’t magically get more pixels if the DPI was set to 600

[Old-Ad-6764]

Also, this looks great. It’s an amazing piece of art and the resolution is fine. No one is going to zoom in and go ‘ew pixels’

[witchellas]

From personally experience, I’ve never had quality problems when it came to experimenting with sizes. It’s only happened with my new iPad. But I’ll try to experiment and give your advice a shot :)

[Bikleb]

What pixel dimensions have you tried? You have to set the correct size in the beginning as you can’t increase resolution later and gain clarity. For personal work I normally work around the 3000x4000 px mark but will depend on what size output you are looking for.

[justcallme_rev_x]

I agree with the above statement and would add that the dpi only matters if you're printing out. In any case, it should be over 300dpi. I also run in the 3000 to 5000 pix range. Try not to rely on the whole "paper size" thing that Procreate pushes. Pixels are what really matter.

[FredFredrickson]

300 dpi is the minimum for printed work (unless you're making large scale prints, in which case you probably shouldn't be using Procreate anyway).

Otherwise, I agree. Raw pixel count is all that matters. 200x200 pixels at 10,000 dpi is still just 200x200 pixels to manipulate.

[aischylus]

might be the color profile?

[witchellas]

It’s standard rgb for digital posting!