Ah ok,
thanks for clearing that up Joe, I knew what dpi stood for, but I misunderstood what it meant. I also originally thought that memory was set aside for higher dpi documents than lower dpi ones.
You see if I scan at a high dpi on my scanner that seems to produce a bigger, higher quality document, but if I use a lower dpi the file size does change drastically.
DPI is what counts to make a higher quality document, and naturally creates a bigger width and height, therefore using more memory - I thought they were all tied into each other.
I knew the width and height in pixels counts (I think I said in my original post that "RAM only becomes a serious issue when working with larger files") - I meant bigger on screen and in memory terms.
I still find it difficult to understand this bit really - "The dpi setting is just one little number tagged in the file somewhere."
But I'll take your word for it as I don't know enough about it all.
It is an interesting subject and one that is a little cleare now... er I think.
IPete2.
thanks for clearing that up Joe, I knew what dpi stood for, but I misunderstood what it meant. I also originally thought that memory was set aside for higher dpi documents than lower dpi ones.
You see if I scan at a high dpi on my scanner that seems to produce a bigger, higher quality document, but if I use a lower dpi the file size does change drastically.
DPI is what counts to make a higher quality document, and naturally creates a bigger width and height, therefore using more memory - I thought they were all tied into each other.
I knew the width and height in pixels counts (I think I said in my original post that "RAM only becomes a serious issue when working with larger files") - I meant bigger on screen and in memory terms.
I still find it difficult to understand this bit really - "The dpi setting is just one little number tagged in the file somewhere."
But I'll take your word for it as I don't know enough about it all.
It is an interesting subject and one that is a little cleare now... er I think.
IPete2.