JPEGs?
I’m surprised PS 5 doesn’t default to 72, as it couldn’t read EXIF info. Best I remember, in 5/5.5/6, unless you were opening a PSD or TIFF that has ppi written in header, all images opened at 72ppi.
Now if your camera is embedding 120 in the file, PS 7/CS will read that, but not previous versions. You are right that you can specify an opening ppi in PSP that overrides any header info in the file, though.
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These are JPG files. I set the "open file at resolution…" to 300 and it is overided to 120. Can resample to 300 but it’s a false 300, because the image prints out cruddy. Guess I’ll rethink my camera/software choices and upgrade accordingly.
Thanks for your help.
PS 5 doesn’t have an "open file at resolution x" best I remember? Certainly 6 or 7 doesn’t.
Any imaging program, you have what pixels you have.
If you turn off resampling, you can change to any ppi without affecting the actual pixels or byte size of the image.
All imaging programs work this way.
The higher the ppi, the smaller (in inches) the image.
The lower the ppi, the larger (in inches) the image.
File size and pixel count remain the same.
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Oh, btw.
Sounds like it may be the Kodak twain source that is setting this, not Photoshop.
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YEAH, IT DOES. In the NEW window, you can set height, width and resolution, etc. But that’s neither here nor there because if the photo file doesn’t have the right quality, there’s nothing Photoshop can do about that! I think you’re rightabout the twain also. The camera is probably not up to the higher resolution. I checked the Camera Controls and I set everything to best picture. There are no twain settings that I can find … (oh well)
The NEW windows is only for files you create from scratch. Has absolutely no affect on opening (or importing) existing images.
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Yup. That’s what I found out. Garbage in, garbage out. Thanks!
