My biggest pet peeve about Photoshop CS3

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Smurfy
Nov 13, 2008
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I hate how Photoshop doesn’t proportionately shrink the values of FX applied to layers when changing the resolution of a document. For instance, if a document is 300dpi and I lower it to 100, all FX values become 3 times too large. A drop shadow that was 20px away from the source remains 20px away from the source even after downsizing the resolution, making things skewed proportionately.

Is there a way to avoid this problem, other than committing the FX before changing the resolution?
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Bealzabubba
Nov 13, 2008
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:11:15 -0500, "Evan Deez" wrote:

I hate how Photoshop doesn’t proportionately shrink the values of FX applied to layers when changing the resolution of a document. For instance, if a document is 300dpi and I lower it to 100, all FX values become 3 times too large. A drop shadow that was 20px away from the source remains 20px away from the source even after downsizing the resolution, making things skewed proportionately.

Is there a way to avoid this problem, other than committing the FX before changing the resolution?

not that I know of, I just go to layers, scale effects, and fix it afterwards
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Smurfy
Nov 13, 2008
"Bealzabubba" wrote in message
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:11:15 -0500, "Evan Deez" wrote:
I hate how Photoshop doesn’t proportionately shrink the values of FX applied
to layers when changing the resolution of a document. For instance, if a document is 300dpi and I lower it to 100, all FX values become 3 times too large. A drop shadow that was 20px away from the source remains 20px away from the source even after downsizing the resolution, making things skewed proportionately.

Is there a way to avoid this problem, other than committing the FX before changing the resolution?

not that I know of, I just go to layers, scale effects, and fix it afterwards

That’s silly that we have to approximate them that way. They should be proportionately locked.

I mean, in what instance would ANYONE, EVER want the effects NOT to follow proportionately when resizing a document? Who does this help, or serve?

Absolutely no one.
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bdchmura
Nov 14, 2008
what I think you’re looking for is to go to the Layer with the effects and just r-click and choose "Scale Effects".

HTH

Gary W. Chmura

"Evan Deez" wrote in message
I hate how Photoshop doesn’t proportionately shrink the values of FX applied to layers when changing the resolution of a document. For instance, if a document is 300dpi and I lower it to 100, all FX values become 3 times too large. A drop shadow that was 20px away from the source remains 20px away from the source even after downsizing the resolution, making things skewed proportionately.

Is there a way to avoid this problem, other than committing the FX before changing the resolution?
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jjs
Nov 14, 2008
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:11:15 -0500, "Evan Deez" wrote:
I hate how Photoshop doesn’t proportionately shrink the values of FX applied
to layers when changing the resolution of a document. For instance, if a document is 300dpi and I lower it to 100, all FX values become 3 times too large.

Funny, but it doesn’t happen with CS3 Mac – at least for me!

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