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Reducing image size in Photoshop

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Reducing image size in Photoshop

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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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