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My Elements is on a different compter, so I can’t check this here, but surely, if you adjust the image size to the appropriate number of dpi, about 4x the number currently shown for the OP, then the 100% Print size will be OK?
Thanks for the info. Being new to Elements, could you add more info regarding adjustment of image to a certian dpi and the "OP" setting ?
I tried to dash off a helpful reply while at work. You are the ‘OP’ (original poster) and said….
*********************************************************** I have a 8X10 picture that I want to display with a 100 % Zoom setting.
When I select "fit to screen" and have rulers shown…the 8X10 picture looks O.K. but the zoom setting on the bottom left is around 26 %. I am using a 19 inch LCD monitor.
When I set the zoom setting to 100 % ( I want to see the actual screen when I sharpen), the rulers grow very large in size and I see only a small part on the screen.
I want the rulers and the picture to fit on the screen when I use a 100 % setting. How ?
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Sorry – I thought I knew! I thought that it was just a matter of adjusting the scaling, but frankly PSE has defeated me! I worked through the procedure – and tried to adjust the defaults – but neither achieved the result you want.
Frankly, the reason why I hadn’t noticed before is because all that matters to me is the quality of the image and the final print dimensions. So the magnification relative to the rulers isn’t significant.
I think it may be a bug in PSE or something I’m totally misunderstanding!
Feel free to look through what I’d written – you may find something I can’t….
I’ll take you through it on my copy of PSE5 (It’s the same in other versions) my sizes may vary but I’ll replicate what I would do. (Actually I don’t bother because I adjust the size on printing anyway, so it doesn’t matter what is 100% on the screen!)
1. What do you mean by an ‘8 x 10’ picture? This doesn’t mean anything to PSE – all PSE is concerned about is pixels.
2. PSE uses the dpi figure to convert the pixels into print sizes.
3. Adjusting the dpi figure gives you the final print size from the number of pixels you have.
However, open an image in PSE.
My image (portrait) opens at 38in x 58.67in at 72ppi and is showing 23.93% scale.
Go to Image | Resize | Image Size (or Alt – Ctrl – I)
UNCHECK ‘Resample Image’ very important, we are not changing the image!! Ensure ‘Constrain proportions’ is checked.
Put 10" in the dimension box you want. In my case this is vertical height. Note how the other dimension and the ppi boxes change (in my case to 7.5" and 364.8 ppi.
When you return to the View | Print Size, it just shows ‘large’ inch measurements on the rulers and the same 23.93 scale!! Arrrrgh!
An aside – it’s true that one only learns things when teaching others – I went to Edit | Preferences | Units & Rulers to show you how to get the image up first.
I then saved the file, but – even after closing and opening the program – it shows print resolution 300 pixel/in, and screen resolution 300 pixels / inch. But as soon as I open an image file I get screen resolution 300 pixels / inch and print resolution 72 pixels per inch. I don’t know why – anyone care to help *ME*?!!
So sorry. I don’t know either…… ;-(
Mike
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