What should I do and how can I ensure I get high quality prints?

_It took me a few weeks to complete my designs using GIMP. I'm new to digital design and made a mistake. I had not set the DPI for the canvas and my designs are set to 96DPI. _

Here's an outline of my project ad what I've done to this point:

• I have designed a custom deck of cards and I want to send my designs to print
• The requirements are 822x1122 at 300dpi
• I did an experiment and the results are confusing to me
• I took a large image from the internet (1280x1008), opened GIMP with a 300DPI canvas and scaled the image to 500x394 and saved it
• I opened GIMP with a 96DPI canvas and scaled the same image to
  500x394 and saved it then copied the image from the 96DPI canvas and pasted it into the 300DPI canvas.

I thought the 96DPI image would shrink on the 300DPI canvas however both images appear exactly the same in size and pixelation when zoomed in.

Are these images the same quality?

I could create new 300DPI canvases and paste my 96DPI designs into it but surely the data is already lost, but images scaled to a 300DPI to begin with do not look any better than my 96DPI images.

I have designed a custom deck of cards and I want to send my designs to print. It took me a few weeks to complete my designs using GIMP. I'm new to digital design and made a mistake – I did not set the DPI for the canvas and my designs are set to 96DPI.

What do I need to do to ensure I get high quality prints?

Here's an outline of my project ad what I've done to this point:

• The requirements are 822x1122 at 300dpi
• I did an experiment and the results are confusing to me
• I took a large image from the internet (1280x1008), opened GIMP with a 300DPI canvas and scaled the image to 500x394 and saved it
• I opened GIMP with a 96DPI canvas and scaled the same image to
  500x394 and saved it then copied the image from the 96DPI canvas and pasted it into the 300DPI canvas.

I thought the 96DPI image would shrink on the 300DPI canvas however both images appear exactly the same in size and pixelation when zoomed in.

Are these images the same quality?

I could create new 300DPI canvases and paste my 96DPI designs into it but surely the data is already lost, but images scaled to a 300DPI to begin with do not look any better than my 96DPI images.

I have designed a custom deck of cards and I want to send my designs to print.

The requirements are 822x1122 at 300dpi.

It took me a few weeks to complete my designs using GIMP. I'm new to digital design and made a mistake. I had not set the DPI for the canvas and my designs are set to 96DPI.

It is my understanding that this means the resolution of my designs will be too poor to print.

I did an experiment and the results are confusing to me.

I took a large image from the internet (1280x1008).

I opened GIMP with a 300DPI canvas and scaled the image to 500x394 and saved it.

I opened GIMP with a 96DPI canvas and scaled the same image to 500x394 and saved it.

I then copied the image from the 96DPI canvas and pasted it into the 300DPI canvas.

I thought the 96DPI image would shrink on the 300DPI canvas however both images appear exactly the same in size and pixelation when zoomed in.

Are these images the same quality?

I could create new 300DPI canvases and paste my 96DPI designs into it but surely the data is already lost, but images scaled to a 300DPI to begin with do not look any better than my 96DPI images.

I don't understand what is going on. What should I do and how can I ensure I get high quality prints?

What should I do and how can I ensure I get high quality prints?

_It took me a few weeks to complete my designs using GIMP. I'm new to digital design and made a mistake. I had not set the DPI for the canvas and my designs are set to 96DPI. _

Here's an outline of my project ad what I've done to this point:

• I have designed a custom deck of cards and I want to send my designs to print
• The requirements are 822x1122 at 300dpi
• I did an experiment and the results are confusing to me
• I took a large image from the internet (1280x1008), opened GIMP with a 300DPI canvas and scaled the image to 500x394 and saved it
• I opened GIMP with a 96DPI canvas and scaled the same image to
  500x394 and saved it then copied the image from the 96DPI canvas and pasted it into the 300DPI canvas.

I thought the 96DPI image would shrink on the 300DPI canvas however both images appear exactly the same in size and pixelation when zoomed in.

Are these images the same quality?

I could create new 300DPI canvases and paste my 96DPI designs into it but surely the data is already lost, but images scaled to a 300DPI to begin with do not look any better than my 96DPI images.