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Technical Deep Dives··10 min readYour Image Says 72 DPI, and That Number Cannot Hurt You
DPI is a note stored beside the pixels rather than a property of them, which is why one file reports three different numbers in three programs. What actually decides print quality, why typing 300 into a box changes nothing, and where the real ceiling sits.
Tutorials··10 min readThe Order You Run Image Tools In Changes the Result
Resize, cut out, upscale, compress and strip metadata in the wrong sequence and you throw away quality for nothing. The rules behind a lossless-until-the-end image pipeline, including the decode ceiling that quietly undoes a 4x upscale.