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photoshop document/image size wrong
I am making an invitation in PS, (honestly because I know it so much better than ID), which will eventually be printed. I set the canvas and image size to be 5×7, but it is so much larger than that. Resolution is 150px/inch and the width is 750 px and height is 1050px. The inches on my rulers are ridiculously large and not accurate. Is this some sort of simple problem or a PS bug? I’m using CS5.
Thank you!
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Right click on ruler and make sure it is set to inches. Check canvas size command and make sure doc is set to right PPI
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: From Still to Motion, Video Made on a Mac, Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques
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Your file size is not huge.
If you were sending this to a printing press, it would need to be 300dpi (dpi = dots per inch or ppi=pixels per inch)… and CYMK
(which is why Indesign or Illustrator are traditionally used for layout)If your document is 5 x 7… multiply 5 x 300 = 1500 and 7 x 300 = 2100…
Hence your pixel size would 1500 x 2100.
For desktop printing, 150dpi should be okay, but 200 dpi wouldn’t be a bad idea. BUT for text heavy items, 300 dpi would improve legibility.
C.R.
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