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• • August 19, 2019 at 9:04 am #1181383
    Josh Davis

    Member

    Was wandering if anyone could help with this strange issue.
    I have made a banner in Photoshop which is 970px X 300px @300ppi. I then exported as JPEG.
    Next I made an indesign document 970px X 300px
    When I drag the JPEG into indesign I expect it to fill the frame (as it’s the same size).
    Instead, the image is much smaller. When I scale the image to the correct size my effective PPI has decreased to 72 PPI.
    It’s as if my indesign document is decreasing my image resolution?
    I’ve seen this happen before in photoshop, when putting at 300PPI image in a 72PPI document.
    But why is Indesign doing this? Is there a setting for a working in 72PPI?
    I am very confused as to why this is happening.
    Please help! I will send you cookies (the baked kind, not the internet tracking ones).
    Thanks!

  • August 19, 2019 at 2:45 pm #14324265
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    In these kinds of situations, the resolution doesn’t matter. If it’s a 970 x 300 pixel image and a 970 x 300 pixel InDesign document, then to make the pixels line up, the image has to be at 72 ppi.

    That is, InDesign documents are always 72 ppi under the hood.

  • August 20, 2019 at 1:11 am #14324264
    Josh Davis

    Member

    So if I export that indesign file as a JPEG @ 300 PPI, will the image still have the 300 PPI resolution? or will it be in 72 PPI?
    I have made banners in photoshop before at different sizes @ 300 PPI, and moved them to the same size Indesign doc and had no issues (it fit the frame with effective 300 PPI).
    Is there a way to change the Indesign PPI to be 300 ‘under the hood’?

  • August 20, 2019 at 1:24 pm #14324260
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Can you explain what you’re trying to do? Are you making a web banner or something? Or is this for print? If it’s print, you should be working with real measurements, not pixels.

  • August 20, 2019 at 10:54 pm #14324258
    Niels JÌürgen Pedersen

    Participant

    If you are making something for screen, always work in 72 dpi.
    There is a huge difference in making something for screen or print!

  • August 21, 2019 at 1:01 am #14324257
    Josh Davis

    Member

    Thanks for your responses.
    I understand what you mentioned about 72 PPI for screen, but its not always the case!
    It was for a web banner, but specifically needed to be at 300PPI
    I did solve the issue by pretending I was working in real measurements. (E.g (970px X 300px)/ 300 PPI = 3.23″ x 1″
    This way I could work with my 970px x 300px image and maintain the effective PPI of 300.
    I do think its a shame indesign doesn’t offer a way to work in pixels other than at 72 PPI :(

  • August 21, 2019 at 7:29 am #14324255
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Web measurements always need to be specified in pixels, and resolution does not matter. At all. 970 pixels at 72ppi is exactly the same thing as 970 pixels at 300 ppi.

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