Basic Help

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StatCat
Oct 3, 2004
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I know some basic things in photoshop but I don’t really have a deep knowledge in it I’ll just say first off. I’m taking an imaging class and for the next session the teacher wants scanned images to be used in a collage. He said the collage itself will be 5 x 7 150 DPI. So I need to scale things right which I can figure out but what about the DPI of scanning the images in? The 150 DPI canvas size throws me off- I’m assuming that wouldn’t mean 150 for the scanned images?

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StatCat
Oct 4, 2004
Anything?
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Corey
Oct 4, 2004
Are you scanning the images yourself, or is the instructor providing them? Either way, your final collage is going to be 5 by 7 or 1500 by 2100 pixels. Once you get the other images, I bet your instructor wants you put each into a new layer to make the collage. You can adjust the size of each layer independently of the others, regardless of the scanned size. Just hit CTRL+T and grab a corner while holding the SHFT key (to constrain proportions), and resize.

The secret you seek is layers (with transparent backgrounds). To get the new images into one is as easy as drag and drop.

Corey 🙂

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I know some basic things in photoshop but I don’t really have a deep knowledge in it I’ll just say first off. I’m taking an imaging class and for the next session the teacher wants scanned images to be used in a collage. He said the collage itself will be 5 x 7 150 DPI. So I need to scale things right which I can figure out but what about the DPI of scanning the images in? The 150 DPI canvas size throws me off- I’m assuming that wouldn’t mean 150 for the scanned images?

Thanks
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BIG ONE
Oct 4, 2004
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:14:52 -0400, (StatCat) wrote:

I know some basic things in photoshop but I don’t really have a deep knowledge in it I’ll just say first off. I’m taking an imaging class and for the next session the teacher wants scanned images to be used in a collage. He said the collage itself will be 5 x 7 150 DPI. So I need to scale things right which I can figure out but what about the DPI of scanning the images in? The 150 DPI canvas size throws me off- I’m assuming that wouldn’t mean 150 for the scanned images?
Thanks

Skan the pickys in at a higher resolution (bigger number) than 150 (file>import)
resize them (down) in photoshop later

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