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Making sense of document size

Making sense of document size - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2022 Essential Training

Making sense of document size

- [Narrator] In Photoshop it's always good to know how your image is going to be displayed. Because if you know this, then you'll know the dimensions of the document that you need to work with. In this video, we're going to be discussing the four most common ways to display your image. On screen, halftone printing, inkjet printing and continuous tone printing. First, let's discuss the dimensions of a document that will be displayed on screen, such as a monitor or on a phone. What's most important in this scenario is the width and height of your document in pixels. So all screens have a specific number of pixels. So your document needs to have enough pixels to fill the portion of the screen, where the image is going to be displayed. The resolution of the file doesn't matter because the device is going to map a single pixel in the document, to a single pixel on the screen. If the image has too many pixels, it might appear…

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