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Understanding document size

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Understanding document size

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- [Instructor] In Photoshop it's always good to know how your image is going to be displayed. Because if you know this, then you'll know the dimensions of the document that you need to work with. So in this video, we're going to discuss the four most common ways to display an image on a screen, halftone printing, inkjet printing and continuous tone. And we're going to learn how to calculate the correct document size needed for each type of output. So, first let's discuss the dimensions of a document that will be displayed on a screen such as a monitor or a phone. What's most important in this scenario is the width and height of your document in pixels, not in resolution. So all screens have a specific number of pixels. So your document needs to have enough pixels to fill the portion of the screen where the image is going to be displayed. The resolution of the file really doesn't matter because the device is going to map a…

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