Computer Graphics with Photoshop - copying layer from one image to another

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copying layer from one image to another

mar10

2006-03-26, 10:15 pm

I have a number of 5X3.5 images and I want to copy 2 of these into a
new 5X7 file I've created.

Currently I am just dragging and dropping over the layer from the
smaller photo and placing it in the larger file.

I'd say 60% or 70% of the time the image that I copy comes over much
larger than it is in the original. Is there some setting I'm
accidentally turning off or on that is causing the image to copy over
at a different size than it actually is? How do I get the image to
stay at it's current size?

Bill Hilton

2006-03-26, 10:15 pm

> mar10 writes ...
>
>I have a number of 5X3.5 images and I want to copy 2 of these into a
>new 5X7 file I've created.
>
>Currently I am just dragging and dropping over the layer from the
>smaller photo and placing it in the larger file.
>I'd say 60% or 70% of the time the image that I copy comes over
>much larger than it is in the original. Is there some setting I'm
>accidentally turning off or on that is causing the image to copy over
>at a different size than it actually is?

What might be happening is you have the right aspect ratio but
different resolutions ... for example a 5x3.5 file at 180 ppi is 900 x
630 pixels while a 5x3.5 file at 300 ppi is 1500 x 1050. So either
work in pixels (which is what I do) instead of an aspect ratio or make
sure the resolution is the same for all three files and this problem
should go away.

Bill

tacit

2006-03-27, 6:18 pm

In article <1143419888.545167.282360@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
"mar10" <mar10a@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'd say 60% or 70% of the time the image that I copy comes over much
> larger than it is in the original.

That's because the source and destination are different resolutions.

You say your images are "5x3.5," but that does not matter. When you are
working across images, the only thing that matters is the TOTAL NUMBER
OF PIXELS.

Say you have two 5x3.5 images. OPne is 100 pixels per inch. One is 300
pixels per inch.

The first one is 500 pixels wide. The second one is 1,500 pixels wide.
If you put them both into the same image, the second one will be three
times larger than the first one.

Forget "5x3.5"--that is what is messing you up. You believe that all
5x3.5 images are the same number of pixels; they are not. Look only at
the dimensions of the images in pixels.

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