# Painting in HD or UltraHD

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-in-hd-or-ultrahd/758004>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 22, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-in-hd-or-ultrahd/758004 "2016-06-22T01:08:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![T-Minus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@T-Minus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T-Minus)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-in-hd-or-ultrahd/758004/1 "2016-06-22T01:08:01Z")

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You know, I am considering painting in 1080p or 4K  
Do you guys think it would make paintings better for you if painted in that format? I tried to make a 1080p painting before my laptop crashed. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-in-hd-or-ultrahd/758004/2 "2016-06-22T07:39:40Z")

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Get paint in the keyboard? That’ll do it.

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**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-in-hd-or-ultrahd/758004/3 "2016-06-22T07:54:02Z")

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Been there! They look good for sure but there’s just so many dots. Once tendonitis sets in you’ll drive yourself crazy trying to automate the process and once you go down that road you may as well just snap a photograph.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-in-hd-or-ultrahd/758004/4 "2016-06-22T08:29:16Z")

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Don’t worry about TV ratio resolution, just work to 300dpi (or technically it would be _ppi_) at whatever print size the final output needs to be.