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Resizing Practice Exercises for Photoshop CS2 Basics Lesson 2

By Sue Chastain, About.com

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Increasing the Print Size / Reducing Resolution

Increasing the Print Size / Reducing Resolution
That's a bit small, so let's change the width to 6 inches. The resolution field changes to 266.667. This resolution will still give us a fairly good quality print and allow us to print at 6 by 4.5 inches. It seems like a happy medium, so we're going to accept those numbers. Before you click OK, however, take a look at the pixel dimensions. As you can see they have not changed from the original size.

Now click OK. Your image onscreen should look exactly the same. So, how do you know it has changed?

Choose View > Print Size. The image will be resized to the approximate print size that we chose: 6 by 4.5 inches. If you were to actually print the image it would print at this size, and if you save the image, the print size is generally retained with it (unless you use the Save for Web command to save the image). By changing the resolution of the image without resampling we have not changed the pixel data at all. You've only given Photoshop information about how you want the image to be printed.

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