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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 good to know the final destination of your image. For example, it's 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 discuss the four most common ways to display your images on screen, halftone printing, inkjet printing, and continuous tone printing. So 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 pixels per centimeters really doesn't matter because the device is going to map a…

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