Okay, this is weird. I’ve got photoshop 7.0 and I’m opening a new document. The canvas isn’t as wide as I want so I go to ‘Image-Canvas Size’ and then change the figure in the ‘Width’ field from 0 to 2, in order to increase the width of the canvas by 2cm. For no reason I can tell, the frigging canvas increases by about 3 inches! If I want to increase the width of the canvas by the amount I want, I have to change the measurements option from ‘cm’ to ‘pixels’.
Why is that?
Thanks.
Are your default units, grid spacing, etc set to “inches”? What magnification are you viewing the image at? What’s the declared resolution of the image?
Keep in mind that “100% magnification” does not mean that the inch or centimetre dimension of the image on the screen matches that of it in “real life”; it means that one pixel in the image is displayed as one pixel on the screen.
If you are looking at an image with a declared resolution of 300 dots per inch (for example) on a screen that has 100 dots per inch, and the image is 1 inch square (in other words, 300 pixels by 300 pixels), setting the magnification to 100% will show an image 3 inches square… and will show every pixel of that image as one pixel on the screen.
I checked all these parameters and I found that the problem was that my resolution was set way too high. I reset it to 72dpi and that solved it. Thanks a lot dude, I wouldn’t have thought of doing that if you hadn’t mentioned it.
[sub]shuffles away to n00b hall of shame :)[/sub]