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  • photoshop document/image size wrong

    Posted by Hey Chong on December 21, 2010 at 12:01 am

    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!

    Christina Rodriguez replied 15 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Richard Harrington

    December 21, 2010 at 12:15 am

    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

  • Christina Rodriguez

    December 21, 2010 at 4:38 pm

    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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