DPI maximum for loaded images

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  deitchstudio · Member · Aug 4, 2014 at 4:34 pm

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  I am new to this and this may be a really silly question, but how big (in DPI) can I post at?
  Thanks!

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  kokkieh · Staff · Aug 6, 2014 at 9:05 am

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  I’m not sure about DPI, but you can upload files up to 1Gig in size.

  What you should look at is your theme’s specifications. If your theme can only display images at a maximum width of, say, 400 pixels, uploading images any larger than that is a waste of your media storage (unless you want visitors to be able to download high res images straight from your blog).

  Here are the specs for your current theme:

  Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels):

  The main column width in Reddle maxes out at 440 when the layout is fixed.
  The sidebar maxes out at 284 when the layout is fixed.
  The custom header image is 1120 by 252.

  https://wordpress.com/themes/reddle/

  As you can see, in posts and pages your theme won’t display images wider than 440 pixels and images in the header is 1120 pixels wide. I think the upper limit for most themes is around 1200 pixels wide, so if you’re not obsessive about quality and sharpness, etc., resizing your images to that width before uploading should be more than enough and will keep you from running out of storage space too quickly.

  You can also see this post for more information: http://gammagirl.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/new-image-rotation-and-scrunching-reloaded/