


Now, I know screens also have resolution and that resolution can be expressed as dpi, but at any rate, where does the 144 dpi is the resolution for social media come from? On which device? At 300 dpi, each 300 px of your bitmap image will result in an inch in the printed media. This may be by design, but it's bad design.ĭPI stands for dots per inch, which was always used as a parameter that dictates the printed size of a raster image. If your document is 144DPI, via the export persona Slices panel you could set the export scale to 2x, or manually enter in your dimensions (1080p) to ensure the document exports at absolute sizes.Īlternatively, to avoid having to adjust the sizing scale in the export persona you could set your document DPI to 72 in Document setup, or create default presets based off of the social media templates with the DPI value adjusted to 72, that way you can use the 1x size scale without having to adjust this each time. I've provided a screenshot below of an excerpt from the help guide which details how the DPI value assigned to your doc will affect the final exported document's pixel dimensions dependant on the size scale. This is by design, the default Social Media presets have a DPI of 144, which when exported via the export persona at 1x size will export at half the original pixel dimensions, which is 540x540px in your example. This is because the export export size scale is linked directly with your document's DPI.
