Friend said my layer colors would blend if I just used a dpi of 300, ruined a whole 40 hour piece

Spent two weeks on a digital portrait for a local gallery submission in Portland. My buddy Mark kept insisting that 300 dpi automatically smooths your brush transitions. Total nonsense. Ended up with this muddy mess where my skin tones just bled into each other. Had to scrap it and restart at 600 dpi with separate layers locked. Anyone else get bad advice from someone who sounds confident but has no clue?

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murray.spencer2d ago

@margaretm23 Mark sounds like a real piece of work, huh? My buddy Dave once told me that if I just cranked the contrast on a black and white piece it'd look like Ansel Adams. Let's just say my dog ended up looking like a charcoal briquette with legs. 300 DPI for blending is like trying to fix a leaky faucet with a sledgehammer, totally the wrong tool for the job. 600 DPI with locked layers has saved my bacon more than once, especially with skin tones. Nothing worse than watching your careful hours of work turn into a finger painting project by a toddler.

margaretm232d ago

Lol totally been there, Mark sounds like my friend Jake who told me the same garbage.