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Reducing image size in Photoshop - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Reducing image size in Photoshop
If all of this talk of resampling and resolution and pixels and print size has you all confused, don't worry; it's all going to come together in this movie. You've seen this image before. This is a student image shot by Amber Griffith. It has been edited. We are now at the point of the workflow where we need to resize it before we pass it on to our sharpening process and then finally, out to print. Our goal here is to produce an 8 by 10 inch image. There are a number of different ways of resizing in Photoshop. I can actually resize with the Crop tool, as you'll see later in this chapter. I can resize with the Print dialog box, which you should pretty much never do. Or I can resize by going to the Image menu and choosing Image Size, which brings up Photoshop's Image Size dialog box. This is a great tool for resizing, but also for understanding the interrelationship of resolution, print size, and pixels, and for seeing where resampling fits into all of this. So let's take a look at what…
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Understanding pixels, printer dots, and resolution2m 44s
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Understanding resolution2m 33s
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Defining resampling and interpolation3m 41s
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Understanding where resizing fits into your workflow2m 12s
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Defining native printer resolution2m 39s
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Understanding the relationship between viewing distance and print size2m 1s
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Reducing image size in Photoshop9m 11s
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Cropping to a specific size and resolution using Canvas Size4m 34s
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Cropping to a specific size and resolution using the Crop tool5m 15s
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Enlarging an image in Photoshop7m 7s
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Creating a triptych3m 55s
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Creating a triptych using Automator on a Mac4m 5s
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Exploring the aesthetics of print size4m 39s
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