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

2015-03-12 Thread Devin Asay
Are you guys talking about the automatic Density Mapped Images feature that was introduced in 6.5? You just provide image assets at various resolutions with standard resolution tags appended to the filenames, and LiveCode automatically chooses the best resolution based on the resolution of the d

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
I took the "ease the pain" path. I include 1 image that looks good on the best resolution device and then scale it down. I use the iPad Retina for my calculation. 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. Now