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Answer by Nerf Herder for Is there any practical difference between saving at...

As you wrote it, the answer is that there is no difference (until you print it or look at it in a document that will be printed).First a clarification: PPI is pixels per inch, a description of the...

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Answer by Mark Whitaker for Is there any practical difference between saving...

You ask if there is a practical difference. So the answer is yes, albeit a very small one, but some of the other answers have missed it.You're right that the only difference is in the metadata: if you...

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Answer by drfrogsplat for Is there any practical difference between saving at...

Does an image edited and saved/exported with 1200x800 pixels at 300 ppi look any different online than the same image saved/exported with 1200x800 pixels at 72 ppi?No.A bitmap produced either on-screen...

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Answer by Caleb for Is there any practical difference between saving at...

I suppose that it depends on who is doing the speaking.If the speaker has half a clue, you should understand their statement to mean that they're saving the image at the same dimensions but lower...

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Answer by mattdm for Is there any practical difference between saving at...

There's no difference. The statements you are seeing are uninformed.There are a lot of uninformed people on the internet, so that's not surprising. You haven't missed anything, except maybe you are...

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Is there any practical difference between saving at 300ppi or 72ppi?

I often see statements in discussions about web displayed image quality that go something like this: "I only upload pictures at 72 dpi and 1200 pixels on the long edge, so if someone copies and prints...

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Answer by Zeus for Is there any practical difference between saving at 300ppi...

For completeness, I'll add an example when the PPI tag matters even without printing.Some modern programming environments/platforms (for example, .NET WPF uses device independent pixels) do render...

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Answer by Tony Corrigan for Is there any practical difference between saving...

As a professional photographer for 30 plus years I can assure you there are considerable differences between DPI values. It might be better to consider DPI as a factor about your final intentions for...

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Answer by Seeker for Is there any practical difference between saving at...

I am learning web development and i encountered pixel unit in CSS and in reading about it i found these things.There are two terms one is "software pixel" and one is "hardware pixel".Software pixel is...

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