Resizing Photos in Adobe Photoshop: Example 1 Digital Camera Photos

Resizing Photos in Adobe Photoshop
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Example 1: Digital Camera Photos
As mentioned in the Understand Resolution PDF, digital camera photos have no resolution,
but since Photoshop must assign a resolution and often this defaults to 72 PPI. For example,
when you open a 2-megapixel photo and check the Image> Image Size menu, this is what you
would see (note the document size):
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Width: 11600 It piKels
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Height : 11200 I! pillels :J
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Width: 122.222 il lrKhes
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Resolut ion:
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NOTE: Most cameras save their images in JPEG format (' JPG); when working on the file. you
should save the image as a Photoshop file (.PSO). lfyou need JPEG as the final format, you can
do a save-as when you are done editing the file. It is not suggested that you continuall y edit an
image while it is in ]PEG format.
Setting the Resolution
In order to resize the image, without lOSing pixels, you must turn off the Resample Image
option at the bottom of the dialog box. When you do this, you will noti ce that the Pixel
Dimension can no longer be edited.
Now. type in your desired resolution based on your method of output (refer to Understand
Resolution). The image size will change, but not the total pixel dimeniolls (which are now
locked).
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Width: 1600
Height : 1200
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Setting the Size
If it turns out that you do not want an 8 x 6 inch image, you would now t urn Resample Image
back on and type in the desired size.

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WARNING: Notice that the file size at the top of the dialog box will change. Anytime you see
a change in the file size, you are either adding or removing pixels. When Resample Image is
checked, you can either add or remove pixels from your original image. When you remove
pixels, it is permanent change, so keep a copy of the original camera image. When you add
pixels, Photoshop has to add in "fake" pixels (this also is a permanent edit). It is always desire-
able to obtain "true" pixels during the initial camera shot (by using a higher-megapixel cam-
era) or during a scan (by using a higher-optical resolut ion scanner).
Example 2: Web Images
Web graphics should be handled the same way as digital camera images, however, web graph-
ics normally do not work well for print. The reason is that web graphiCS usually do not have
many pixels, so when you turn off Resample Image and set the higher resolution, the image
size becomes too small to be useful.
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Width: 316
Height" 384 piMels
- Document Size:
Width: 11.58 ]I inches
Height: 11.92 Il lnchu
Resolution: !20a I [
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Example 3: Existing High-Resolution Images
The process is the same for hi- res images, but instead of having a large fi le size and a low reso-
lut ion. the images have a "normal" size and a higher resolut ion.
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Height: 11601 It plKels :j
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Document Size:
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Height: 15.
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Resolution: 1305 It plKels /l nth :j
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Setting the Resolution
In order to resize the image, again, you must turn of the Resample Image option at t he bottom
of the dialog box. Now you should set the resolution to your desired setting.
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Width' 2762 pixels C .. rn:el
Height : 1601 pixels
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Wld1h' 112.276 Il lntl,es

Height : 17. 116 It Inches
Rewlutlon' Ins I [ pixels /I nch
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NOTE: For commercial printing, using the 1.5x the LPI, you can get a larger file size from your
images. however, you must not enlarge the images in a desktop-publishing program.
Setting the Size
Again, you can adj ust the size of an image by turning on the Resample Image checkbox. The only
benefit this option has is smaller file sizes (notice the size difference in the example below).
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Dimensions: 7.16M (wa s

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