I am new to pse and not understanding the whole sizing thing. I have some pictures that when I copy/paste them onto my background, they are bitty. When I try and make them big they pixelate. Does that make sense?
Thanks

Hello Solly-
Were they scanned into your computer or are they from a digital camera?

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They were from a digital camera, not very high quality camera. THanks

What I do is hover over a photo (thumbnail) when it is in a folder- it will tell you the dimensions. If you have the details showing- it's to the far right under the dimensions column. If you have the tiles showing- it's just to the right of the tile.

OK- now some of my older photos were taken at 1600x1200 res.
If I want to print a LO with one of these- they should be at 300 res. preferrably- so I divide 300 into each- and my photos would look best if they are no bigger than 5.3"x4" in a LO.

Some of my recent photos are 2560x1920 res.
So again I divide 300 into each and my photos would look best if they are no bigger than 8.5"x6.4" in a LO.

I have read that 200 res. still looks fine- so I have done LO's where the photo is the whole LO- 8x10 and I think/hope they will still print fine

HTH- let me know what size your photos are- there are still a lot of neat things that can be done with small photos!

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Thanks for your help. The camera I am taking pictures from is 1280X960. That is my friends camera from a vacation. My current camera is 2048X1536 (I just got for christmas). Previously all my picutures from the last 4 years are at 1024x768.

So, basicallly if I divide 300 into any of these, that is the largest it will go and look ok? I just tried it reducing it to 200 and it transfered over larger. Maybe that would be the best way to go? I hate to reduce it. I don't intend to print them now, but just incase . . .

Thanks for helping me
Nancy

Nancy-
I'm by no means a photographer- DH takes most of the pictures

I know you can set your camera to take different resolution pictures. The higher the res.- the less pictures fit on your memory card.

So your pictures might not all be the same- even if they were all from the same camera. It's best to check where the actual picture is on your computer.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. I use ancient Photoshop 4, but this is how I usually do it:
When I'm in my scrapbooking folder of picures (that are in individual folders) that I want to do LO's of (which BTW are copies of the originals) I right click on a picture, then click Open with> Adobe Photoshop. Up pops my gigantic picture (because it defaults to 72 res) I click Image>Image size then I change the resoltion to 300 and under print size- I change the dimensions to the biggest I might want the photo to be- according to the res of your photo divided by 300. Be sure Constrain Proportions is checked. I can always make the photo smaller in my LO if I decide to. From there I do any cropping and/or photo editing and it's ready to drag over to my LO that's open.

Again, I'm not an expert and still have a lot to learn, but I hope this helps. You probably know most of the above, but hopefully it will help someone

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Thank you! Thank you!
I get it. I was transfering the picture over (and it was huge) then when I drug it over to my 8X10 at 300dpi background, it was small and I couldn't make it big. I now realize it was at 72dpi and the computer converted it to 300 dpi when I copied it over onto my background. I also understand why it is that size.
THanks so much!

I'm so glad Nancy- sometimes I know what I want to say, but it doesn't come across very well

Don't you love it when something clicks!!!!!
I seriously think that I learn something new almost everyday about scrapping- all because of SBB

I look forward to seeing your first LO!

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