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I understand that, however I was referring to this particular turorial here: http://www.scrapgirl...lution_size.htm

That tutorial contains such inaccurate statements as "72-dpi (dots per inch) means that there aren't very many dots", "300-dpi means that there are many, smaller dots", "72-dpi graphics... file sizes are small", and several others that are just wrong. And since this tutorial has such great Google ranking, it's just perpetuating the myths about DPI.

Oh, and I'm not trying to pick on this website or anything. I just Googled "internet 72 DPI" and your tutorial page was the very first link to come up!

Replacing those two terms wouldn't matter since both end in "per inch", and inches don't apply to the internet. Both are ignored. Plus, PPI would matter even less, since there is no setting for PPI in the properties of an image. As far as digital files are concerned a pixel is a dot.

Here are some good links on the topic:
http://www.apptools....xamples/dpi.php
http://www.dpiphoto.eu/dpi.htm
http://www.nicholson...rticles/dpi.htm

From what I understand the whole 72 DPI concept came about back when the Mac was invented, and Steve Jobs' group wanted a page of text to look the same size when printed as it looked on the screen, and they figured 72 DPI (again, only applicable when printing) was about the right setting to use for that. This was erroneously translated to mean 'computers are 72 DPI', which led to massive DPI confusion that still exists today.