Save for Web is not set to any particular resolution, because there is no resolution in terms of ppi on the web. Resolution in terms of ppi or dpi or whatever is only relevant when it comes to printing. There are only pixel dimensions, which you set when you create your image. When you see 72 ppi in Image Size it means nothing. What is displayed depends on a viewer’s monitor resolution and that changes from person to person.
Why does it matter to you? Are you printing the images?
No, not printing the images, I am creating web images. The standard resolution for monitors (PCs running Windows)seems to be 96ppi now rather than the older 72ppi. Just curious really and if there would be any benefit for producing web images at 96ppi.
No, there is no difference and there would be no benefit. The image will display at the resolution of the user’s monitor,whatever it happens to be.
When you prepare images for the web, all you should be looking at is the width and height in pixels. No need to even look at the ppi number.
Ed is quite correct in his advice, Steve. When creating web pages, you always work in pixel dimensions. For instance, if you want a page to display without sideways scrolling on practically any monitor, you’d set the maximum page width to just under 800 pixels.
When placing items on the page, whether text boxes or graphics use pixels as the unit of measurement. Web browsers completely ignore the "ppi" tag, so you could save your images at 300 ppi, or whatever, an it will make no difference at all.
Hope this helps.
Chris.
By the way. Do you spell colour with a "u" – and if so, are you the Steve Cain, photographer extrodinaire, that I know? 🙂
Back to the original question (regardless of relevance to web output)…
SFW converts images to 72ppi in all cases and this resolution cannot be changed within the SFW dialog or a setting modification elsewhere, correct?
The standard resolution for monitors (PCs running Windows)seems to be 96ppi now rather than the older 72ppi.
This is not true. Monitors and drivers allow anyone to change resolutions from VGA to XVGA to SXGA to UXGA, etc… Surely one cannot maintain 96 or 72 ppi at all those resolutions. Why would you assume that everyone is using a 17" display at 1024×768 pixels?
SFW converts images to 72ppi in all cases and this resolution cannot be changed within the SFW dialog or a setting modification elsewhere, correct?
This is not correct. SFW uses no ppi data. The 72 ppi you see when you load an image in Photoshop is what Photoshop is assigning by default because there is no existing resolution data stored from the SFW function. If you open the same SFW image in another app, it may claim it is 100 ppi.
SFW converts images to 72ppi in all cases and this resolution cannot be changed within the SFW dialog or a setting modification elsewhere, correct?
Actually SFW strips the resolution data from the file
