Image Quality

[Lavadoodlez]

What are the ideal settings in Krita for quality prints and for posting online?

[Michelist]

Hello @Lavadoodlez, and welcome to the forum!

For printing that largely depends on the use case, so if you want to hang it on or living rooms wall or as a mural on a Hoover Dam.
See these topics for instance:

What are the best settings for digital artwork to be printed?

I plan to print my digital artwork at a very large size, and of course, I want to maintain high quality and perfection. Do you have any tips or suggestions for this? How should I export it and what format is best? Or are there other more detailed settings for this? Thank you very much in advance.

Looking for help with scaling pages for print

I recently self-published my first comic magazine and in doing so, had a crash course in using krita in general. For some pages that were drawn at 11 x 17, I had to scale them to 8.5 x 11, which made the artwork look “squat.” I’m looking for someone who can help explain how to scale without compromising proportions. The first image shown here is how the artwork looked after scaling and how it went to print. The second image is the original-sized art. Any advice? [yttw] [ghjjgj]

Is there a way to change a file from 150DPI to 300DPI after I finish a drawing?

Hello, I was tasked to create a drawing for something that needed to be about 10 feet wide and 8 feet tall. For storage and ram I set the DPI to 150 instead of 300 and now I’m worried that it won’t be acceptable to print due to a lower DPI along with that I also cut down the size too with it being 5 feet wide and 4 feet tall. Is there a way I can export that into the original requirements without losing or not losing that much quality? I put about 30 hours into it and now I feel like it was a wh…

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By the way, for printing purposes this plugin may be of interest for you:

VectorGuideMarks plug-in - Trim,Grid and Dimension

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For online publishing it is a different thing, and to be honest it is like opening a can of worms to digest! The issue is that every platform you upload to has different optimal settings and nearly none of them will tell you which settings are best for them!

So, for online publishing it should be enough to work in Krita’s standard resolution, and later export it in PNG, or if that is not accepted in JPEG/JPG. Then you should investigate beforehand if the chosen platform adjusts the size of your pictures, and if it does, you should make an export of your work out of Krita which you then can crop to the aspect ratio used by that page. This way you can control at least what from your picture is shown.
The different color profiles the sites apply to your work are another hurdle to deal with, also here they don’t tell which these are. This constantly leads to users complaining in the forum that their uploaded works look different online than in Krita, but Krita has no influence on this! But the good things are:

• You are the only one who knows the difference!
• All users are equally disadvantaged through this behavior, so it may be best to not take it too hard.

But it is said (hearsay) that there are a very few users that manipulate and adjust a picture till it looks on the chosen platform how they want to see it. The advantage is, if they found a setting that exports their works like they want them to be, they know from now on the settings for the platform they pinged this out. Unfortunately, you must repeat it for each and every platform, which is tedious and nearly no one does it.

If you want to protect the files you upload of being theft for creating high quality prints without your permission, you should degrade the export resolution. Some time ago a user said to have the best result with 72DPI, if that is an optimal setting I don’t know, but it is the only information I have on this.
For protection against being AI-Scraped, there are tools like Nightshade and Glaze (and probably more). If you use them is up to you. The thing is, you have to believe in them, because a real proof that the big AI companies can’t deal with that and can not circumvent the “protection” does not exist, only the creator of Glaze and Nightshade claims it works.

These were in short my answers as a layman on your questions. Our forum search will reveal much more on this.

Michelist

[Lavadoodlez]

Thank you so much , this helps I’ll check out all these threads!

[Takiro]

If you don’t already know a bit about color management and color profiles it’s also worth reading this

<Blender-folder>/version number/datafiles/colormanagement - Color Managed...

Mismanaged color is often a cause of frustration for digital artists, especially newcomers and if you have to distribute digitally and in print.