Resizing Weirdness…CS3

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Mark_Forman
Feb 15, 2009
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Not sure why this is happening…but…

I’m creating a web page in Dreamweaver. I grab the photo I want to use for a header; & open it in Photoshop (CS3). I resize the photo to 7" wide…@ 72ppi, which will be the perfect width for the design I have in mind. I configure the resized photo into Dreamweaver; & it looks small…about 5-1/2" in width. I think…OK…maybe it’s something to do w/ Dreamweaver’s default resolution…so I preview the page in Internet Explorer…knowing the default browser resolution is 72ppi.

It’s still 5-1/2" wide in IE.

Photoshop is telling me it’s 7" wide, but it’s 5-1/2" wide everywhere else.

what gives ???

Thanks much,

Mark Forman

BTW – Could this be a monitor screen resolution problem…??? That is set to 1680 X 1050.

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Geoff_K_Jackson
Feb 16, 2009
You can’t use inches in web design, you have to think in pixels. An image may be 5" on your screen but on someone else’s screen set to a different resolution it will be another size.
Is your image 504 pixels wide? In Photoshop preferences/units & rulers what is your screen resolution?
Geoff.

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