Anyways; I have this problem where when I draw something, I have a bit of a tough time trying to decide how the size of the thing is going to be on paper. Looking around the Internet for different tutorials, I quickly learned to set up my virtual sheet of drawing paper like so:
Preset: "International Paper"
Size: "A4"
Width: "210 mm"
Height: "297 mm"
Resolution: "300 Pixels/inch"
Colour Mode: "RGB Colour" "32 bit".
Why? Dunno. It seems a bunch of digital artists apparently use that setup time and again, so I figured I couldn't go very wrong using it, myself. Besides; I've always drawn on A4 paper, so it made sense.
Anyways; I quickly realize that diagonal lines and fine arcs end up looking very jagged once I zoom in a bit. In fact, the whole image ends up looking more and more pixellated and blocky the more inflated it gets on my screen. (I know Photoshop is based around pixels, so I suppose that's the reason.
)Thus, I start checking out different tutorials on-line. My immediate thought was to increase the "Pixels/Inch"-rating, but unless I'm completely mistaken, that only affects the quality of the printed paper. At least that's the impression I got. I've also checked out the tutorials-section on this forum, but have thus far found nothing particularly relevant to my needs.
I hope I made myself understandable. I initially figured I'd upload a small image I'd quickly drawn up to better try and show you what I mean, but for some reason, Photoshop won't allow me to save the file as a regular image-file. I can only save it as a "PSD", "PDD", "PSB", "EXR" and all sorts of other bloody nonsense I've no freaking clue what the hell is, which is really damn infuriating
. If anyone can tell me how to save it as a regular filetype people actually use, like for example "JPG" or something, I'd be really grateful.Thanks for reading all this, and I hope you can help me. I'm sure this is a really stupid question, but I did try Google'ing all sorts of key terms without result, as well as search this forum.
