Re: Managing Sizes - Images in Mobile (was Mobile Template)

2015-03-12 Thread Devin Asay
; -Original Message- > From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf > Of Brahmanathaswami > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:16 PM > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Managing Sizes - Images in Mobile (was Mobile Template) > > Hmm... All th

Re: Managing Sizes - Images in Mobile (was Mobile Template)

2015-03-11 Thread Paul Hibbert
> If your image is 240px * 240px at 240dpi, and you change the resolution in > photoshop to 72dpi, the image is still 240px * 240px and the quality isn't > changed. It is just a reference for if the image is to be printed. Assuming you are talking about the menu option [Image > Image Sizeā€¦], tha

Re: Managing Sizes - Images in Mobile (was Mobile Template)

2015-03-10 Thread Brahmanathaswami
"So if I want the image to take up say 70% of the card, I calculate the size so when it's taking 70% of a Retina screen it look good. " When saving, which PPI should we be chosing. I'm still stuck in the old "72dpi for web" which is the wrong use of "DPI.. since photoshop is actually asking

RE: Managing Sizes - Images in Mobile (was Mobile Template)

2015-03-10 Thread Ralph DiMola
.com] On Behalf Of Brahmanathaswami Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:16 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Managing Sizes - Images in Mobile (was Mobile Template) Hmm... All this buzz about apps that scale everything for every rect, with CSS and HTML5 etc, Certainly they are not placing a single

Managing Sizes - Images in Mobile (was Mobile Template)

2015-03-10 Thread Brahmanathaswami
Hmm... All this buzz about apps that scale everything for every rect, with CSS and HTML5 etc, Certainly they are not placing a single instance of a rasturized image at 320 X 568 @ 72 and then expect that to scale up to 1024 X 768 "automatically" and still look decent. Unless the laws of pixe