Resize Image by cm and print the same size

[darylt]

I have an image that I want to resize so that when its printed it is no larger than 1.4cm

I have gone to the resize option, selected centimetres and have entered 1.4 as the dimension, however now on the screen the image is very much a different size to the image that I created in PSP X2. The zoom level are the same but the images are very different.

Can someone please tell me how to resize an image in cm and how to maintain this size both on the screen and when printed.

Is this something to do with how many pixels per cm/inch?

Thanks in advance

[LeviFiction]

Print size and image size are different. So if you just want to adjust the print-size and not the actual image size or pixel dimensions you're going to have to make sure that resampling is turned off.

Click on the advanced options check-box on the bottom of the dialog. It should show you the bigger options. Just deselect re-sampling and you can set the print size and it will adjust the ppc or ppi for you. It also won't resample it'll only change the print information. So it'll print at a size of 1.4 cm if you want it to, but the actual image size won't change. If you don't do this you'll notice that the pixels are thrown out and the image becomes very small by comparison.

Or am I misunderstanding you?

[darylt]

Hi Levi

I think I need to explain a little more...

I have an A7 Canvas setup and need to add images to this A7 Canvas that are 1.4cm across. When I print the image I will be turning it into a negative so should end up with a black rectangle that is A7 with multiple different white shapes that are 1.4cm across.

Does that help at all?

[Tim Morrison]

There is really no direct relationship between the printed size of an image and the size displayed on-screen in PSP.
Most image viewers will do one of two things. They'll either display the image so that each pixel is displayed as a single monitor pixel, or they'll zoom so that the image fits the screen. In this case the size will depend on the size of the screen more than anything else.
A few applications try to display an image at the same size as it would appear when printed. These are page based applications such as word processors or desktop publishing programs. It's usually only a very rough guess that is rarely correct. For instance, an A4 page is 210 mm across. At 100% zoom in Microsoft Word the page is shown at 162 mm wide on my laptop and 224 mm wide on my desktop monitor.
I'm not sure what you mean by an "A7 canvas". I thought perhaps you meant A7 as in an international paper size, but A7 paper is only 74 x 105 mm, so the 1.4 cm you mention doesn't work for that.

[ronzie]

First, I recommend you show the rulers on your monitor display to get a sense of size.

Second, look at your printer driver options which might offer scaling, fit-to-page, various clipping options.

I often use the crop tool with a preset size to get a sense of the print area aspect ratio if I want just a portion of the image. I then then size and drag the crop area keeping the aspect ratio for the best composition. I execute the crop to a new image and perform the resize function keeping the same resolution.

I generally work with the tif format to keep lossy compression and compression artifacts out of the process.

Using the rulers I select the preview (full editor) image window sizable-shrink mode, adjust the window size the estimated real width (it will clip) and then select Fit Image To Window to approximate the actual printed size. I'll repeat if the ruler gradations don't match real size. I have a dual monitor setup each with a different screen resolution so I was able to test this