72 dpi has to be EXACT?

BramHoddssd

I know graphics have to be 72 dpi and stuff, but when i put my image saved as 72 dpi it says something like 71.89 (thats not exact but it was something like that). So i change it to 72 dpi and save. Later I open it again and it says it's 72.5 dpi (or something like that).

So my question is,
does it matter???

JohnPapiomitis

are you using photshop?

BramHoddssd

gimp

BramHoddssd

in case it matters heres the exact sizes:

first time was 71.984

second time it was 72.009

cbt

Just put them in a GS project and see if they are blury. If they are not, I think it won't be a problem at all.

anithmuk

yeah I had that problem with gimp. however I'm pretty sure gimp gives the info in ppi not dpi, maybe that's the difference? Either way my images are all about 72.1 d and/or ppi and they look fine.

tenrdrmer

I've seen gimp do this also to some of my art. Never affected anything

Chaser

Both my draw10 and Gimp do this all day long and sometimes in the 80s. Like the others said just make sure they're not blurry. I even notice Gimp will give me a .0011something in the app when I resize art to whole numbers, sometimes after several tries it stays a while number but that doesn't seem to do anything for the export and 72dpi

BramHoddssd

k thanks everybody

forklift

Photoshop will do this sometimes as well.

bazookaBen

happens to me in gimp too. I get 72.111 all the time. Did a lot of testing on GS Viewer, turned out OK!