Help with re-sizeing images

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Desmond
Aug 4, 2009
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I am using Photoshop 7. I have copied some 12 meg pictures from my camera to the PC. Edited parts of the images and reduced them to 504px by 360px. Photoshop says this is 7 inch by 5 inch when i select inches from the drop down box. I have upoloaded the pictures to photobox.co.uk for printing. They say the images are to small and not good enough. how is this possible if Photoshop says they are 5×7. What should I do about this.

Help please. TIA

Desmond.
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Kabuki
Aug 4, 2009
"Desmond" wrote in message
I am using Photoshop 7. I have copied some 12 meg pictures from my camera to the PC. Edited parts of the images and reduced them to 504px by 360px. Photoshop says this is 7 inch by 5 inch when i select inches from the drop down box. I have upoloaded the pictures to photobox.co.uk for printing. They say the images are to small and not good enough. how is this possible if Photoshop says they are 5×7. What should I do about this.

Help please. TIA

Desmond.

you have ignored the importance of resolution during your resizing

don’t tick resample when you go down in size
or find out exactly the size AND res from the print shop first

when reducing (throwing away info) always save as a COPY
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Bob Williams
Aug 10, 2009
Desmond wrote:
I am using Photoshop 7. I have copied some 12 meg pictures from my camera to the PC. Edited parts of the images and reduced them to 504px by 360px. Photoshop says this is 7 inch by 5 inch when i select inches from the drop down box. I have upoloaded the pictures to photobox.co.uk for printing. They say the images are to small and not good enough. how is this possible if Photoshop says they are 5×7. What should I do about this.

Help please. TIA

Desmond.
If you want high quality 5 x 7 prints from your image, Select the CROP tool and set the Height and Width to 5" x 7" and set the Resolution to 300 pixels / inch.
Drag the crop tool over the image until you get what you like >>>> ENTER Your image will be exactly 5×7" and the resolution will be 1500 x 2100 pixels. Perfect for printing.
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