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Downsampling for print

Downsampling for print - Photoshop Tutorial

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Downsampling for print

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to downsample an image specifically for print and by that, I mean reduce the number of pixels to keep the file as lean as possible and at first, this may seem like a daft idea. After all, if upsampling an image is technically a destructive modification, then downsampling must be doubly so. But the truth of the matter is, while you only occasionally upsample an image inside Photoshop, you frequently downsample it. And so consider this, if you will. Imagine that I'm working with a designer and she wants to include this image inside of an InDesign document at 12.8 inches wide, which is going to be quite big, incidentally, but not nearly as big as the image file that we have right now. And so if I hand her off this image that's 186 megabytes in memory and for what it's worth, 87 megabytes even when saved as a compressed JPEG file, it's going to be a pain in the neck to upload…

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