

Depending on your printed size and viewing distance however, lower DPI or PPIs will still produce an acceptable looking image. When it comes to the best print quality, 300dpi is a standard that all should adhere to. Set your art board to a minimum 300 dpi NOT 72dpi before you create your art to avoid loss of quality and pixelation if you increase the resolution after creating your artwork. Keep your options open for future print sizes. We would recommend setting the physical dimension to something quite large, such as 36”x24” as you can always print smaller. If you set it to a square for example 10”x10” you will not be able to print it as a rectangle unless you crop into it. Knowing what physical dimensions you need for the final product is essential information when setting up your art board. RGB has a wider colour gamut.įun fact: mixing different intensities of red, green and blue create an absolutely wide range of different colours. This is because CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) colour space has a subset of red, green and blue (RGB) which means it will be able to capture some shades but not all, so some RGB colours will be converted to their closest CMYK match. If you were to Google this, many results will say to set your colour profile to CMYK (a traditional printing process), images will experience noticeable shifts that may result in a muted or washed out looking print, meaning less vibrant or flat.

Open a new art board and set the colour space to RGB colour profile, NOT CMYK. Colour FormatĮvery image is unique and has its own story to tell, but the way in which it’s told can be very different depending on what colour mode you use. These are three small but key steps to follow prior to creating your artwork. You’ve spent hours on this beautiful painting or drawing, however, because the files are low resolution, there is no way anyone will be able see what great work went into the creation without zooming in far enough that everything starts to get pixelated! Luckily with our tips below your exported images can have an edge like never before. There is nothing more frustrating than creating a stunning piece of art only for it not to be as stunning when you export it. Three Important Steps to Printing Procreate Art
