XDP365 isn't showing image DPI accurately as Photoshop does.

[handrawn]

well egg, that's another way of looking at it... certainly if you then wanted to export it at 300dpi, you'd need to resize it back down 96:300, ie 32%, because if you tried to export this from what xara calls 'full size' at 300dpi, you get a much bigger pixel size image 6250 x 4563 pixels

is there any actual advantage to using blank photo mode that makes using it worth that sort of hassle? - outside of website building....

[Egg Bramhill]

well egg, that's another way of looking at it...

No, I'm just stating a fact. Blank photos are imported at their pixel dimensions, not their dpi.

It's this dpi setting that's causing the confusion. The only important issue is the pixel width & height of the image.

[handrawn]

No, I'm just stating a fact. Blank photos are imported at their pixel dimensions, not their dpi

what you have said there is not quite what the xara help says is it? maybe it would be even more helpful if it did; emphasisng that this means retagging at 96dpi

when I said another way of looking at it I meant as opposed to 'optimising', it is a form of optimising; still haven't found out what advantages this mode actually has...

The only important issue is the pixel width & height of the image

sure, when you are determining the absolute size of a bitmap image...

[Egg Bramhill]

what you have said there is not quite what the xara help says is it?

You must have a different help file than mine then HD. I just copied & pasted it direct from the help file.

I believe it 'optomises for the web' when you do that; there may be a way of preventing that, but I always use a normal pastebord document

No it doesn't, it just open the photo at it's true pixel dimensions. If you wanted to optomise for the web you'd be using a web document, not a photo document.

if you tried to export this from what xara calls 'full size' at 300dpi, you get a much bigger pixel size image 6250 x 4563 pixels

Why export at 300dpi. The photo document opens at full size, edit it and re-save.

[handrawn]

I think you are not concentrating on what I am saying egg.. for example, what I said was that your second version of the help: Blank photos are imported at their pixel dimensions, not their dpi is not worded the same as Photos are always imported/opened at their full size in photo documents - yes the first is a consequence of the second, but you have to know that don't you.. if you don't, it is less than helpful

and yes it has been optimised - maybe not it the way you define it here, but that is not the only way of looking at it - and this has consequence as follows

regarding:

Why export at 300dpi. The photo document opens at full size, edit it and re-save

because if you just save, then the internal info in the file will now be tagged at 96dpi and not 300dpi, and in case you forgot, the whole point of the OP's question was to keep the tagging at 300dpi - ok this is not important in absolute terms, but it is important if it is what is actually required in practice, for print use or whatever...

[Egg Bramhill]

Open the Bridge.jpg in Xara. It opens at 2000px. Do some editing. Clone/Magic Erase for example. Save.
Import the editited Bridge.jpg image into Xara Document Page, with the options set to "Import at dpi specified in the image file".
Open the Bitmap Gallery.
What dpi is reported?

[handrawn]

ok I see what I did wrong - I imported into a new blank document and saved that which defaults to 96dpi if you don't notice and click on the settings button to change the export settings - export settings in a save just noticed it - well I shall continue to forget about these documents I think

thanks though for putting me right