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Making sense of document size

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Making sense of document size

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- [Instructor] In Photoshop, it's always an advantage to know how your image is going to be output. For example, are you designing for print or will you have images that'll be displayed on a screen? If you have this information, then it's much easier to figure out the size of the document that you need to work with. In this video, we're going to discuss the four most common ways to display your images: on screen, halftone printing, inkjet printing, and continuous tone printing. First, let's discuss the dimensions of a document that will be displayed on a screen such as a monitor or a phone. What's most important in this scenario is the width and height of your document in pixels. 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, the pixels per inch or per centimeter, doesn't really matter because the device is going to map a single pixel in a…

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