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I am informed that the new versions of windows (XP) now work in 96dpi.
No, XP is no different than Windows 3.1 or older in that respect. Windows has always defaulted to 96 dpi for font size. The 96 dpi number is only used to size text fonts. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with showing images (it is always ignored for images – it doesnt matter what the dpi says). Images are only shown according to their size in pixels on the screen, like maybe a 400×300 pixel image on a 800×600 pixel screen. That number is how large the image will be shown (the 400×300 pixels). dpi is not a factor.
Can anyone tell me how to adjust my save for the web feature in Photoshop 7 to save at the 96dpi?
No, the Save For Web menu is going to scale to 72 dpi, period. However, there is no explainable purpose for 72 dpi images either, this is simply what Adobe does, for no explainable reason. It simply doesnt matter, because instead, the video screen is dimensioned in pixels, and the image is dimensioned in pixels, and that is all there is to it on the screen. There is no concept of dpi in video systems.
You can use menu File – Save As, and select JPG, and then can save the JPG file at whatever resolution it already is (instead of 72 dpi). The video screen still will never care, the screen only shows the pixels directly.
See
http://www.scantips.com/no72dpi.html for a description of the full details of the (untrue) myth of 72 or 96 dpi for video.
The ONLY time scaling a screen image to the 72 dpi or 96 dpi ballpark may be significant is if you are going to use the Text Tool to add text into the image. This is the one time the image resolution dpi number will be used, to size that added text font in the image, and the text size may come out closer to expected size on the screen at 72 dpi, or 300 dpi when printed (i.e., a 12 point font will approximate 12 point size either way). But as for showing that resulting image on the screen, dpi simply is never a factor on the screen.
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Wayne
http://www.scantips.com "A few scanning tips"