Photoshop Resolution Basics (No. 81)

If you're just starting out with Photoshop and need to get a grip on what resolution you need then this is the episode of Creative Sweet TV for you. We take a good close look at what the required resolutions are for print and onscreen. What is the best way to reduce the size of an image, and how to get the best results when doing any type of image resizing. If you work with someone who doesn't seem to understand that you can't just take a really low resolution image and blow it up to a billboard, then force them to watch this show from start to finish. It may just save YOU a lot of frustration.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Photoshop
• Image
• Size
• Resolution
• CS5
• Mike
• McHugh
• Pixels
• Bicubic
• enhance

[spamjim]

At the risk of being called an idiot by someone alleging to represent Adobe, this video is quite a bit wrong. Ignore the 72ppi myth.

Screen designers DO NOT enter 72 ppi. Screen designers simply resize by the number of pixels wide by the number of pixels high. When you use Photoshop's "Save for Web" function, any resolution data is stripped out as it is not needed. It is when an image without resolution data is RE-opened that Photoshop will assign a default value of 72ppi.

[mchughm1]

@spamjim WOW just WOW. Well done Jim, Thats weird man.

[devonmale69]

AS I understand it NO image has a resolution, just pixels ONLY, resolution is only applied when you output an image to either screen or print by the device you output too.

[mchughm1]

@devonmale69 As I understand it you truly are an idiot.

[devonmale69]

@mchughm1 this is how you talk to people who say some thing different to how you put it?

Do you think Adobe would talk to its customers like this?

I don't think do a resolution (PPI) only comes into play when you output an image and before that it is only a size determined by the pixel count nothing more and nothing less. If anyone is an Idiot it is YOU....

[mchughm1]

@devonmale69 No you are .

[shels72]

Thank you for this information it was very helpful... Sea Shels Photography...

[swedenskill]

Thank you! Great explanation!

[superemposed]

which Photoshop software are you using?

[tolisBFMV]

look at the small crocodile at hia shirt ...