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Edit your image size

Learn how to easily change the dimension and resolution of your Photoshop document to get the output size that you need for your project.

When editing an image in Photoshop on the iPad, you can quickly check the image properties and resize your image to meet your needs. You can set the Image size, Dimensions, Width, Height, Resolution, and apply various Resample options.

Follow these quick steps to view your image properties and edit the sizes:

  1. Open your document in Photoshop on the iPad.

  2. Tap the gear icon to open the Document properties panel that displays W and H, Resolution, and Color mode of your open document.

    • W and H: Describes the canvas size and the total count of pixels in your document.
    • Resolution: Resolution is the fineness of your image and shows how many pixels are packed into an inch when you print. 72 PPI is the standard default for web and mobile screen displays. For printing, a standard resolution of 300 PPI or greater is necessary.
    • Color mode: Different color modes result in different levels of color detail and file size. The standard for printing is CMYK color mode. The standard for web, email, and mobile screen displays is dependent upon RGB color modes to maintain color integrity.
  3. Tap Image size to open the Image size mode that contains three sections — Image preview and dimension (non-editable), Resample, and Image size. Also, you can pan around the image preview shown in the image size dialog.

    Bring up the Image size dialog and modify your document properties.
    Bring up the Image size dialog and modify your document properties.

    Resample

    With resampling, you can easily make your image larger or smaller. To keep the number of pixels constant, you can disable the Resample option. Experiment with different Mode and Fit to presets that are available in the drop-down menu when Resample is enabled. Mode provides you a list of interpolation presets to adjust the total number of pixels proportionately. Fit to provides preset to resize the image. You can view your changes reflected in the preview window. 

    • Automatic: Photoshop chooses the resampling method based on the document type and whether the document is scaling up or down.
    • Preserve Details (enlargement): When this method is chosen, a Noise reduction slider becomes available for smoothing out noise as you upscale the image.
    • Bicubic Smoother (enlargement): A good method for enlarging images based on Bicubic interpolation but designed to produce smoother results.
    • Bicubic Sharper (reduction): A good method for reducing the size of an image based on Bicubic interpolation with enhanced sharpening. This method maintains the detail in a resampled image. If Bicubic Sharper oversharpens some areas of an image, try using Bicubic.
    • Bicubic (smoother gradients): A slower but more precise method based on an examination of the values of surrounding pixels. Using more complex calculations, Bicubic produces smoother tonal gradations than Nearest Neighbor or Bilinear.
    • Nearest Neighbor (hard edges): A fast but less precise method that replicates the pixels in an image. This method preserves hard edges and produces a smaller file in illustrations containing edges that are not anti-aliased. However, this method can produce jagged effects, which become apparent when you distort or scale an image or perform multiple manipulations on a selection.
    • Bilinear: A method that adds pixels by averaging the color values of surrounding pixels. It produces medium-quality results.

    Image Size

    • Units: You can choose to size your image using a wide variety of measurements depending on your workflows when Resample is disabled. For example, when printing, Inches and Centimeters are often used. Pixels are often used when creating for web and mobile devices.
    • W & HYou can change W and H fields when Resample is disabled. When changing either width or height, Photoshop on the iPad will automatically preserve the aspect ratio. Click the lock icon to unlock and change both the width and height independently.
    • Resolution: With the Resample option disabled, the Resolution tab gets automatically updated as you change the W & H options. The Pixel Dimensions fields will get larger or smaller when updating the Resolution tab. 
  4. Tap Done at the bottom of the Image size mode to save your applied resizing options. Tap Cancel to exit the Image size mode without saving any of the applied modifications.

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