Bigc Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 The canvas size of my drawing is 400px*150px and its 300 DPI. Lines are smooth when i zoomed in close, but its very pixelated when zoomed out and exporting to png. Is my canvas setup correct? and how can i fix it? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BofG Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 What pixel size do you require your png to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigc Posted November 25, 2021 Author Share Posted November 25, 2021 400px*150px Same size as the canvas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 9 hours ago, cheffee said: The canvas size of my drawing is 400px*150px and its 300 DPI. Lines are smooth when i zoomed in close, but its very pixelated when zoomed out and exporting to png. Is my canvas setup correct? and how can i fix it? Thank you 400 x 150 pixels is quite small. At 300 dpi that is 1 1/3 inch by 1/2 inch or 3 cm x 1.25 cm. I am going to assume that you are using Designer as you used the term drawing. Go to View > View Mode > and choose one of the Pixel choices, now set the zoom to 100 % look at your work. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.2 Affinity Designer 2.3.1 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigc Posted November 25, 2021 Author Share Posted November 25, 2021 55 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: 400 x 150 pixels is quite small. At 300 dpi that is 1 1/3 inch by 1/2 inch or 3 cm x 1.25 cm. I am going to assume that you are using Designer as you used the term drawing. Go to View > View Mode > and choose one of the Pixel choices, now set the zoom to 100 % look at your work. It looks more pixelated, and the quality of the output still the same (pixelated). The view mode setting was vector, will that affect my output? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 6 minutes ago, cheffee said: The view mode setting was vector, will that affect my output? No. The reason I said to use the Pixel view mode is that we are talking about something the size of a postage stamp. You are saying the work looks pixelated. It is going to be Pixelated. It is a tiny little thing. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.2 Affinity Designer 2.3.1 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BofG Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 How did you arrive at the size? Why so small? If you can share the image on here and its intended use you might get some useful advice on how to improve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigc Posted November 25, 2021 Author Share Posted November 25, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, BofG said: How did you arrive at the size? Why so small? I am making a logo to use on Shopify. Frist i tried 148mm*210mm, shopify resized the imaged and it looks pixelated so i made it smaller. Edited November 25, 2021 by cheffee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BofG Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 So how did you arrive at the 400 x 150px? Did Shopify specify that size? Did you view the image size details that were served? Did you inspect the html to see if it's being served in an "src set" and choose the largest? Before you go any further, you need to know for sure what pixel dimensions you actually need. As a side note, the mm sizes don't convey any details about the raster size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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