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Downsampling for print

Downsampling for print - Photoshop Tutorial

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Downsampling for print

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to downsample an image, that is, reduce the number of pixels inside the image file for print. And at first, this may seem like a daft idea. If upsampling an image is technically a destructive modification, then downsampling must be doubly so. But the truth of the matter is, while you rarely upsample an image inside Photoshop, you frequently downsample it. 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, she's really going to have a hard time uploading it and then it's going to take forever to print, and so forth. What I need to do is streamline this file to get it down to the right size. Now I want to do so without harming the original, so I'll start things off by…

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