Will 599dpi be affected by editing?

[SyncroScales]

Hi. I scanned some old pictures at 600 dpi. Using a Canon CanoScan LiDE 700F and PSPPX3 Ultimate.

I had to take the bmp images out of the temp folder last night since I need to shut my computer down. The bmp files were the scans, but not exported yet. They open in image viewing programs, but they are not cropped or anything.

I wanted to export them as tif and jpeg files. Then I'd edit some. I was wondering if this weird dpi number they now have at 599 instead of 600 will be a problem. Could an image viewer, editor or editing, etc maybe have issues? Or dpi being moved, rotated, effects applied, etc would be a problem? What about using it in a program like CorelDraw, would that have issues?

Thanks.

[df]

If you haven't changed the actual pixel count then you have only changed a number and not actually affected any pixels. Are the files smaller on the hard drive or is it the same size? If the 6.5mb jpeg (just an example) is still a 6.5mb jpeg then you're fine.

http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/mythdpi.html

DPI, without specifying a print size, is a somewhat meaningless number. It's like saying "will a car going 50 miles an hour go further than a car going 35 miles an hour?". The answer will vary greatly if you don't specify a time span.

[SyncroScales]

The files were slightly smaller. They were copies.