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Beginners' Questions Increasing image DPI
  1. #1
    henleyhenley henleyhenley @henleyhenley

    Does anyone use Inkscape to increase image quality/DPI, kind of like an upscaler? I like Inkscape because it allows you to upload an image and then easily export it with your selected dimensions and DPI, however, I feel that sometimes, even though it's purporting the DPI is 300 (for example), when I zoom in on the PNG I've exported it seems a little grainy. For instance, I'll sometime upload a design from Midjourney to Inkscape to increase DPI but, after exporting it out of Inkscape, I'm not sure that the image quality is really there. Does anyone else have this experience?

  2. #2
    David248 David248 @David248

    Is the design from Midjourney a vector graphic ?

  3. #3
    henleyhenley henleyhenley @henleyhenley

    It is a raster graphic-

     

  4. #4
    David248 David248 @David248

    I wouldn't use inkscape to upscale raster graphics. It's not intended to.

  5. #5
    Polygon Polygon @Polygon🌶

    I think there is a misunderstanding here. Doubling the dpi number, for example, simply means that what was previously 1 pixel in size now becomes 4 pixels in size. No new information is added like AI upscalers try to do.