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Resizing & Cropping Images / A Tour of the Image Size Dialog
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OK, here's what I've done. I simply closed out of the low res robot, the low res cartoon robot. I still have, obviously, the high res robot open here inside Photoshop and as I mentioned previously, I want to introduce you now to a dialog box inside Photoshop that's going to allow us to resize images. You may have stumbled upon this dialog box on your own if you've been messing around a little bit with Photoshop. He's called the Image Size dialog box and he's found underneath the Image Menu, so head up to the Image Menu up at the top and then there you will find Image Size. Now, here's a Keyboard Shortcut that you may want to commit to the sticky note that you have hanging off of the bottom of your monitor and that is, on the Mac side here, Cmd-Option-I or on the Windows side Ctrl-Alt-I and the reason why I suggest that you memorize or try and remember this Keyboard Shortcut is this is one of these dialog boxes inside Photoshop that you'll find yourself coming into a lot. Let's go ahead and head into the dialog box there, so again, Image, Image Size. Here we are. Before I really get tearing into this dialog box I want to say this, that if you were to e-mail me an image, if you were to e-mail me a photo or a graphic or something, the first thing that I do is I get the file open inside Photoshop and I hit Cmd-Option-I, or Ctrl-Alt-I on the Windows side, to get into this dialog box because I want to know what I'm dealing with right off the bat. I want to know what resolution I have inside this image. I want to know the dimensions, both the print dimensions and the pixel dimensions and so on, right? I want to know what I'm dealing withright? So, bear that in mind as you're working along inside Photoshop. As for this dialog box, I think probably what would be in good order is to give you a tour of this dialog box first and then we'll kind of dig further into things here. Now, what I want you to make sure of before we sort of commence our tour is that Resample Image down at the bottom is turned on, so if you don't have a checkmark there - I didn't have a checkmark beside mine - make sure you do and your dialog box kind of springs to life after you turn that guy on. So, let's begin our tour of the Image Size dialog box. There's a lot in here obviously. At the top of the dialog box we have the Pixel Dimensions for our image and, again, you may recall from the previous exercise we have 1500 pixels in Width and 1500 pixels in Height. So these are the number of pixels, or the dimensions of our document, of our image, as measured in pixels. Below that we have the Document Size. Sometimes I think of this as the physical size or the print size of our document. If I were to go and print this image off on my printer it would come out at these dimensions, 5 inches by 5 inches. And then below that we have the Resolution of our image as well, 300 pixels per inch, right? And then below that we have some checkboxes and we have a drop-down menu down at the very bottom. We'll get to all this stuff, it gets a little bit more involved here. But At this stage, of the game I think what I want to make sure you understand is if you are working on an image that is destined for your website or perhaps your blog or something like this, in other words, an image that's related to Web design, you don't really care that it's going to print off 5 inches by 5 inches because you're never going to print it off, it's only going to appear onscreen. So, if you're working on an image that's destined for the Web or it's going to be incorporated into a Web design interface of some sort, you'd be more concerned, or really only interested in the pixel dimensions. So, in other words, I'd come in here and I would set up the Width and Height of my image so that it fits inside my Web layout. Maybe it's going to be a Web banner, or something like this, right? If you, instead, are working on a brochure or a layout, maybe in Adobe InDesign, you don't really care so much about the pixel dimensions, you don't really care how large this guy shows up onscreen. What you care about is the physical dimensions, or the print dimensionsright? You want to make sure that this image is going to fit inside your postcard or your brochure or your flyer, or whatever the case isright? Now, if you are someone like me, I flip between the two worlds. I flip between the world of Web design and Dreamweaver and WordPress and blogging and the world of print design and Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator and all this good stuff. So oftentimes what I'll do is I'll flip between the two areas inside this dialog box, depending on the task at hand. So I hope that's all good. There's still more that I want to show you inside this dialog box and I think what I'll do is I will go further with you inside this dialog box in the next video.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS5 |
| Author: | Geoff Blake |
| SKU: | 34150 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-46-1 |
| Release Date: | 2010-08-06 |
| Duration: | 7.5 hrs / 95 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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