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Friday, March 23, 2012 How Do You Make Web Graphics & Photos Look Great On The New iPad?
This is a discussion that seems to have had more questions than answers — up until now.
Problem: You have a web page designed at 1,000 pixels wide, and just looked at it on a new iPad, and were nearly in tears over how badly your graphics and photos looked on there.
Solution: Photographer Duncan Davidson posted some very interesting findings, and I combined that with my own research and present the results at photojoseph.com/retina
(I also have a post specifically about loading images at an optimal resolution on the new iPad on ApertureExpert: Displaying Your Photography On The New iPad)
Reader Comments (5)
Joseph,
I really appreciate this detailed and informative post, as well as the related information on ApertureExpert. Both pieces will be extremely useful. Thanks for being so thorough.
-John
I may be nuts but I think only the progressive is sharp on a retina iPhone.
Joe, you think so? You're talking about the scaled versions on the main page, right, not the clicked-through ones? I just looked again and they seem the same to me on the iPhone 4.
-Joseph
I'm trying to follow and wonder what you do to serve both older iPads and newer Retina ones when making an epub that contains images. You can't count on a user to have Retina yet. In the iTunes store there is a 2million pixel limit per image when you upload an epub. How do you factor all this in?
Dorothy,
Not sure what you mean by the 2 million pixel limit… where are you seeing this, and is that per image uploaded, or?
If creating an iBook, then just add the highest resolution possible and let the software scale on output. For anything else, if you can't do an image that's 2048 x 1536 (new iPad resolution) then do as big as you can.
-Joseph