A question

Hey guys, how are you?, I need help, well, kinda. I am preparing for make a comission, is something I never touched again and I find, well, different. Is about a dakamakuri body pillow, a guy is requesting me a picture for print on one of those things. Sounds interesting because I never make a picture about this topic before, so I have not idea about what kind of scale, size, you know, technical details I can or I need to use.

If somebody know about this it will be helpful. I hope your answer.

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Furx

5 years, 9 months ago

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Firstly you want to make the image as high resolution as you can work with. Ideally the final size should be at least 20 000 pixels tall, that would be good for 300 dpi printing.

For proportions, I would suggest looking at dakis made by other artists. If you have an FA, here's couple that came to my mind:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25641556/ (both sides)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25589264/ (front) and http://www.furaffinity.net/view/25589256/ (back)

I would recommend having a bit of extra empty space at the sides, because that can always be cropped, just be careful not to draw anything "important" too wide.

Meiji

5 years, 9 months ago

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@ Furx

"At least 20 000 pixels tall" Jesus, really? Is that standard?

If so poor Atlas's computer might catch on fire xD

Furx

5 years, 9 months ago

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@ Meiji

It's a huge print. Typical height of a daki is 160 cm, that's 63 inches. So, purely from math: 63 inches * 300 dots per inch = 19 000 dots

If you have less pixels, they have to upscale, which results in blurrier lower quality print.

dahan

5 years, 9 months ago

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@ Furx

But why does it need to be 300 dots per inch? That seems really high... actually, since you said 20000 pixels tall, you're talking about a resolution of 300 pixels per inch, not 300 dots per inch. Each pixel turns into many dots when printed using a halftone process (look at a color photo in a magazine or newspaper with a magnifying glass, and you'll see the dots). High resolution isn't really needed when printing on fabric, since the surface is rougher than paper, and the ink will be absorbed into the fabric and will spread.

Best thing to do is to ask the daki printer how big the image should be, but my guess is around 100 ppi is a more realistic resolution.

Atlasfield

5 years, 9 months ago

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@ Meiji

Actually will die, my program become unstable with 5000 and crash with frecuency when the file has a weight more than 150mb... I cannot imagine a picture of 20000 pixels. D:

On that case I need a nasa computer. :v

Meiji

5 years, 9 months ago

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@ Atlasfield

Lol exactly.