Expert: Syed Waqar Hussain - 2/22/2009

Question
Hello,


           I have Photoshop CS 8.0 & am having problems with the cartoons I color. I would like my cartoons to look like the ZIGGY cartoons that appear on the web (Example: http://news.yahoo.com/comics/ziggy;_ylt=AvZDRGRjRzEVlikG9JaovdiOoswF ). I right click on the ZIGGY cartoon for PROPERTIES & I see that the Width is 300 px & the Height is 292 px. So I go into Photoshop & I click on IMAGE from the top toolbar & then I click on IMAGE SIZE & then I type in 300 pixels for my Width & it calculates the Height for me automatically. Then I type in 72 pixels/inch for Resolution. Then I e-mail my finished cartoon to myself & when I open up my cartoon there are some WAVES & SQUIGGLES throughout the cartoon & background. There are waves & “ghosts” (like on a T.V.) around my characters in the cartoon. It is NOT clear & clean like the ZIGGY cartoons that appear on the web. Is the Photoshop  RESOLUTION setting of 72 pixels/inch the same as 72 dpi? I’m trying to make my colored cartoons look good for the WEB (NOT for PRINT)! Please let me know how I can make my cartoons look nice & smooth for the web (so it looks good on my computer monitor & web site), without having ripples & diffusion in my cartoons. THANKS!


Answer
yep sometime dpi makes difference, but for web 72 is enough. What you should try is you must create first canvas of width 300 and height 292 and then copy your cartoon in that canvas. If cartoon does not comes fit in canvas so press ctrl+T and with holding shift key re size your cartoon according to canvas. It should fix your issue.