Stumbled onto a canvas size hack that saved my render times by 40%

I've been fighting with Clip Studio Paint for months trying to get my line art to stop lagging. My canvases were always 6000x4000 pixels at 300 DPI because I thought bigger meant better quality. Then last Tuesday I watched a speedpaint from some random artist who uses 2000x3000 pixels at 72 DPI and just scales up for print. Decided to try it on my current project and my brush strokes are instantly smooth now. Exports take like 10 seconds compared to the 3 minutes I was dealing with before. Has anyone else found that lowering DPI actually makes your digital work flow better?

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bennett.patricia9d ago

My Wacom tablet started acting up around the same time I switched to 150 DPI canvases... turns out the driver was corrupted somehow. Had to do a full reinstall last Thursday morning after my stylus just stopped responding mid-sketch. Now everything runs smooth like butter, even with bigger files. Wonder if there's some connection between driver health and canvas settings nobody talks about.

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norag669d ago

Wait, @bennett.patricia, but how do you know it wasn't the other way around? The corrupted driver could have messed with your canvas settings, not the other way. I've had driver issues before and they always show up in weird ways, like slow performance or random crashes. Switching to a different DPI setting might have just been a coincidence, you know? The real fix was probably the reinstall, not anything about canvas size or resolution. I've run 300 DPI on a beat up tablet for years without problems, and that driver was ancient. So I'm leaning more toward it being a straight up software glitch.