Mae

Although DPI is most commonly used for printing quality, it can also affect the quality digitally too. The lower the DPI, the more pixelated it’ll look. The higher the DPI, the more smoother it’ll look.

But don’t start making artworks at 1000 DPI, too much DPI can cause lags, crashes, limited layers, and an inflated file size.

Like this…

Don’t do this…

Instead! Try and find a middle ground with each size, there is a little math involved. Just think opposites:

The bigger the canvas, the smaller the DPI

The smaller the canvas, the bigger the DPI

To put this into practice:

Let’s say your canvas size is 8.5x11 inches which is standard paper size (USA), the best and most common DPI would be 300.

But now you want to make it smaller, so you’d half the canvas size to 4.25x5.5 inches. You would then need to double the DPI to 600.

Now you want to take the original and make it bigger, so then you’d double the canvas size to 17x22 inches. You’d then half the DPI to 150.

It’s more accurate if you measure with pixels rather than inches, but like I said I prefer inches. Don’t be afraid to round either, it doesn’t need to be perfect.

First it was the excessive meta units…

Then it was the forced merge which killed my 2 year guild I cherished…

Shoved into a district with no previous allied servers…

Sudden PvP focus…

“Strategic” AFK stages (aka not ‘AFK’ stages)…

No guild event, BD is trash…

Clash is said to only have 30 participants from each guild…?

Now there’s no reputation quest, with the added “no voyage wonder next season”

At this point this game is being stripped of the things I loved the most: A small community of friends, enjoyable AFK stage progression, and most importantly the lore…

I think what makes me more upset is that they didn’t even mention the removal of reputation quests, they just did it.

I get it, they need money. It’s bright as day that revenue has dropped and just continues to drop. But the way they’re going about it just feels like a AFK Arena 2.0. Which idk what I was expecting, it’s Lilith. Maybe I hoped that this one would last, that it wouldn’t cave in on itself.

I’ve just been so upset since this season started… and seeing more people talk about it has made me want to put my foot down.

Actually I’ve been upset since the last contest finished. Never said it publicly but I didn’t win anything, not even just 1k diamonds or whatever. 3 submissions with 1 large artwork I spent a whole month on. To this day it still feels suspicious. Didn’t bother to ask support since I knew I would get some AI response unless I spent more money for the VIP treatment (which is absolute bullshit btw)

This will be the last contest I participate in, as I’m pretty much almost done with the artwork anyways. I wanted to do more but I’ve pretty much lost motivation. The $400 reduction to the winnings is such a mood killer too.

At this point I might just adopt Merlin and Cyran as my own OCs and make my own spin off on the lore.

I’ve also wanted to put my actual OCs (Myra and Grim) into the AFKJ universe, like draw them out as collab heros and I was gonna share it as an April fools joke next year. I might still do it for shiz and giggles… idk.