Help please re printing correct size

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Paul Burdett
Sep 8, 2005
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Hello,

My wife makes miniature dollhouse items. I have 7 jpegs which I have resized to 17mm x 23mm (the size she needs). The idea is to print them on one sheet of A4 photo paper (so as not to have to use 7 sheets). In PS7 I open a new document..A4 size, and drag each of the 7 pictures to the document. I then flatten the image. For some reason (using A4 copy paper as a trial) the pics are printing at the wrong size…namely too small. If I create a new document smaller than A4 (eg 4×6 inches) and drag the 7 images to it, and then print…the images are too big! I presume this is an easy solution to this? I’d be grateful for some help.
Cheers,
Paul

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nomail
Sep 8, 2005
Paul Burdett wrote:

My wife makes miniature dollhouse items. I have 7 jpegs which I have resized to 17mm x 23mm (the size she needs). The idea is to print them on one sheet of A4 photo paper (so as not to have to use 7 sheets). In PS7 I open a new document..A4 size, and drag each of the 7 pictures to the document. I then flatten the image. For some reason (using A4 copy paper as a trial) the pics are printing at the wrong size…namely too small. If I create a new document smaller than A4 (eg 4×6 inches) and drag the 7 images to it, and then print…the images are too big! I presume this is an easy solution to this? I’d be grateful for some help.

Did you select ‘Fit to Page’ perhaps?


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Tacit
Sep 8, 2005
In article <43202362$0$23738$>,
"Paul Burdett" wrote:

My wife makes miniature dollhouse items. I have 7 jpegs which I have resized to 17mm x 23mm (the size she needs). The idea is to print them on one sheet of A4 photo paper (so as not to have to use 7 sheets). In PS7 I open a new document..A4 size, and drag each of the 7 pictures to the document. I then flatten the image. For some reason (using A4 copy paper as a trial) the pics are printing at the wrong size…namely too small.

When you create your new document, look at the resolution. Make sure it is the same resolution as your JPEGs.

When you resize your JPEGs, you do have "resample image" turned OFF, right?


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Caitlin
Sep 8, 2005
"Paul Burdett" wrote in message
Hello,

My wife makes miniature dollhouse items. I have 7 jpegs which I have resized to 17mm x 23mm (the size she needs). The idea is to print them on one sheet of A4 photo paper (so as not to have to use 7 sheets). In PS7 I open a new document..A4 size, and drag each of the 7 pictures to the document. I then flatten the image. For some reason (using A4 copy paper as a trial) the pics are printing at the wrong size…namely too small. If I create a new document smaller than A4 (eg 4×6 inches) and drag the 7 images to it, and then print…the images are too big! I presume this is an easy solution to this? I’d be grateful for some help. Cheers,
Paul

I’m guessing your problem may be that you are resizing the original images without resampling, but that information (Which translates to a change in dpi) is not being dragged across with them. When you drag the images only the pixel information comes along. So when you resize make sure you check ‘resample’ and that the dpi setting is the same as your A4 page. That I think may solve your problem?
PB
Paul Burdett
Sep 9, 2005
Thank you all…problem now solved. I didn’t have the resolution of the new document set correctly. Many thanks for the replies…much appreciated. Paul

"tacit" wrote in message
In article <43202362$0$23738$>,
"Paul Burdett" wrote:

My wife makes miniature dollhouse items. I have 7 jpegs which I have resized
to 17mm x 23mm (the size she needs). The idea is to print them on one sheet
of A4 photo paper (so as not to have to use 7 sheets). In PS7 I open a new
document..A4 size, and drag each of the 7 pictures to the document. I then
flatten the image. For some reason (using A4 copy paper as a trial) the pics
are printing at the wrong size…namely too small.

When you create your new document, look at the resolution. Make sure it is the same resolution as your JPEGs.

When you resize your JPEGs, you do have "resample image" turned OFF, right?


Art, photography, shareware, polyamory, literature, kink: all at http://www.xeromag.com/franklin.html

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