I admit it, I have a print background. As much as I try to leave that all in the past, it always creeps up and bites me in the ass.
Pixel based image asset management is a mystery to many in print and in the new purely digital world. What constitutes a quality asset file to be reproduced? In print there are clear rules, but in digital display, there are many other variables at play. This post is a description of my journey in finally figuring this out.
With every image, regardless of intended output, it has three primary attributes; pixel width and height, physical width and height, and dpi. Of course there is color space, color profile and a few others, but that is outside the scope of this discussion.
