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1. Re: Help Understanding Photo size
99jon Oct 17, 2011 7:08 AM (in response to Luvfilm)Generally the larger the better as you can resize in the PSE Editor using Image à Image Size à Resize
It’s easy to reduce size but increasing size requires re-sampling and some loss of quality.
There are lots of video tutorials on line covering this subject. Try You Tube:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=image+resize+photoshop+elements&FORM=BVFD
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2. Re: Help Understanding Photo size
photodrawken Oct 17, 2011 1:15 PM (in response to Luvfilm)#1: To see the entire picture in PSE, use View...Fit on Screen (or hit the Ctrl+0 keys). You can tell your correspondent to re-size the picture to 8x10 (or whatever) before they email it to you.
#2: Basically, the unused part of the photo is ignored.
#3: When you bring a picture in to the project, it has a bounding box with corner boxes around it. Just drag one of the corners to re-size the picture.
#4: Use PSE.
#5: You're correct -- buy the biggest picture size you think you'll need and re-size it down.
See the help files for the PSE menu item File...Place which talks about the advantages of bringing in pictures as "Smart Objects", give us another question if you want more of an explanation about that.
Ken


