Mark,

Your image hasn't truly been reduced, in the sense of a lessening or loss. It is a resolution issue. It's like if you gave 3 squashes each to two people, but for one person you cut all of their's in quarters. 12 pieces seems like he has more than the guy with only three, but they do have equal amounts of squash. Your 40x27 image is the same exact size as the 10x6 one. It's all about resolution. Images come off of digital cameras with a resolution of 72ppi. Images are comprised of teeny, tiny boxes, arranged on a grid, called pixels. So an image is x number of pixels by y number of pixels and they are only loosely packed together with 72 pixels per inch. You can't get a good print with an image at 72ppi, it looks blocky, you can see some of those pixels. Changing that low resolution to a suitable one for printing, like 300ppi, has the same number of pixels crammed together more tightly. They now take up less physical space. You need a higher resolution to print a sharp photo. Same number of pixels in either case, just a matter or spacing.

Read up on this at Wayne Fulton's great site, you need to have a firm grasp of the whole resolution issue.

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The size of an image displayed on your workarea in PSE has no bearing to its actual size. The display is shown at whatever size you want. It can zoom to view individual pixels at like 1600% or show the whole image in a space of thumbnail. If you have the rulers showing, the size means when printed at the resolution the file is now in. (check this by looking at Image>Resize, WITHOUT resample checked, type in different numbers for resolution only. The higher the res., the smaller the printout. The numbers for resolution are only for the benefit of our printers, to tell them how large to print our image. Res. means nothing to a monitor.

Nancy

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