Digital Canvas Size for Print

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300 for prints seen up close, 240 for photo prints and wall art, 150 for posters read from across a room.

Bit depth

16-bit (Photoshop, Krita) keeps gradients smoother but doubles memory per layer.

New canvas size
2475 × 3075 px
8 × 10 in trim + 0.125 in bleed per side at 300 DPI
7.6megapixels
30.4 MBper layer (8-bit RGBA)
1.81×layer memory of 2048 × 2048
4 : 5trim aspect ratio

Each layer holds width × height × 4 bytes before compression.

Canvas size at other resolutions
DPICanvas (with bleed)MPPer layer

    Digital Canvas Size for Print by ArtsInterstices