Rulers question…

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lacey
May 10, 2008
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We have Photoshops CS. Whenever we re-sized a photo with the rulers in view, the actual "inches" would be fairly big, ie the photo would be quite big on screen. Something has changed and I must have inadvertently done something and now when the rulers are in view, the actual "inches" size of the image is very small so the photo is small on the screen. How can I get it back to how it was before?

I hope this makes sense!

Thanks in advance 🙂

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Phosphor
May 10, 2008
Not really. What units are you using? Pixels? Inches?

Try Trashing/Resetting Preferences as per the FAQs.
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lacey
May 10, 2008
I’m using Inches. Its just the actual size of the photo when opened up. It used to be fairly big on screen within Photoshop, even it was 6 x 4 or 7x 5. Even thought the actual photo is still the same size, its the actual frame when opened with the photo that is much smaller and I want it restored.
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Phosphor
May 10, 2008
Did you reset Prefs yet?
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lacey
May 10, 2008
I have pressed Ctrl, Alt and Shift keys if that is how to reset Prefs.

Nothing seems to have changed.

However, Im looking at the size of RGB/8 at the top of each image in the dialoge box. The ones which are smaller are at 16.7%, and the bigger ones are at 66.7% and 33.3% and I’m now assuming this is the problem so I must have done something wrong when I’ve scanned these images in.
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Phosphor
May 10, 2008
Unless you get a dialog asking if you want to reset Preferences to Default, you didn’t do it. Did you do it while starting Photoshop?

From the FAQs:

Photoshop Versions 6x and later:

A: Hold down Alt, Ctrl, and Shift keys (Mac: Command, Option, Shift) while starting Photoshop. A dialog box will appear asking if you wish to delete the preferences file.

A2: You can also simply search your hard drive for a *.psp file and delete it. It will be called something along the lines of "Adobe Photoshop X Prefs.psp".

Under Win 2k/XP the preference file will be found at:
%windir%\Documents and Settings\~username\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\[version #]\Adobe Photoshop [version #] Settings

[NOTE: You need to set Window’s Explorer Options to "View Hidden Files and Folders" to display the Preference file]

Photoshop Versions 5.5 and earlier:

Search for photos*.ini and delete (the file will be called photos followed by the version number – i.e photos55.ini for Photoshop 5.5, photos40.ini for Photoshop 4.0)

Resetting the preferences will restore Photoshop settings to factory defaults. If removing the preferences files does not resolve the problem you should check the Photoshop Support pages for further guidance.

<http://www.adobe.com/support/products/photoshop.html>

Note that it is possible to keep a ‘healthy’ copy of the Preferences file, so that you simply overwrite the preferences file if needed. That way you won´t have to re-adjust your preferences in Photoshop after a Reset.

More information on Photoshop and Image Ready Preferences can be found at:

<http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/312917.html>

Just hit Ctrl-0 to get the "correct" size if it’s too small.
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lacey
May 10, 2008
Thanks for your help. I can only really do basic stuff on Photoshop CS2, such as re-size and image, crop, adjust hues and thats about it.

Hitting Ctrl-0 worked and was what I was looking for.

Something has happened with the ctrl, shift and Alt keys as now when I save a photo as jpeg the format options within the dialog box are now asking for baseline, baseline standard or progressive. Before the options were resample, bicupic something or other and another option. Resample option someone told me never to check for some reason.
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Ed_Grenzig
May 10, 2008
Lacey

Your image is strictly in h x w pixels. The ppi is only a suggested size for printing but does not affect your image data (pixels) in any way. When you zoom your screen to 100%, then one pixel in your image file is displayed as 1 pixel on your screen. A typical screen has about 96 pixels per inch.

Example: a 960 x 480 pixel image will display at 10 x 5 inches on your 96 ppi screen. If your image is larger than the screen size, then you will have scroll bars to move around inside the image view.

So just look at your size of your image file in h x w pixels to determine how you will display it on screen. 100%, 66%, 30%, etc. When you display at non-100% the computer must temporarily resample your image pixels to scale the image to the proper size. This changes your image pixels and that’s why we only recommend that you display images at 100% zoom when judging for image quality. Again 100% results in one image pixel per one screen pixel. No changing of your image data.

It’s possible that you re-sampled your image data by accident, and have fewer or more pixels than what you started with.

Ed

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