What am I doing Wrong?

rescue951

Hello all this is my first post, Great site, anyhow I'm using PS 6. I am taking photos with a Canon 300D @ the Large/FINE quality. When I open a file in PS, and goto image size it reads pixels @ 3072x2048 and 72ppi. However recently I had some photos I had enlarged, taken with the same camera/settings. And it shows same pixels, but ppi is 150. No cropping, or resampling was done, only color adjustment.

Could I have messed with a setting in PS that now shows all my photos with a default of 72ppi? My question is why do all my photos with this camera now have a ppi of 72?

Just FYI when I open any of the same photos in MS PAINT, it shows all my 300D photos with a 180 ppi?

Corn-Fused
rob

Sam

rescue951 wrote:

Hello all this is my first post, Great site, anyhow I'm using PS 6. I am taking photos with a Canon 300D @ the Large/FINE quality. When I open a file in PS, and goto image size it reads pixels @ 3072x2048 and 72ppi. However recently I had some photos I had enlarged, taken with the same camera/settings. And it shows same pixels, but ppi is 150. No cropping, or resampling was done, only color adjustment.

Could I have messed with a setting in PS that now shows all my photos with a default of 72ppi? My question is why do all my photos with this camera now have a ppi of 72?

Just FYI when I open any of the same photos in MS PAINT, it shows all my 300D photos with a 180 ppi?

Corn-Fused
rob

I'm new at this as well but I think in the image size window there is an auto resolution sub window, where you can chose your default setting. Mine is set at "best" and yields a default resolution of 180. I don't think it really matters much, since I am always rezing to print anyway.

wxwax

Hi Rescue, welcome to the site.

Have you tried saving a photo at something other than 72 ppi? And then opened a second image, and see if the Image box now shows whatever ppi you last used?

rescue951

wxwax wrote:

Hi Rescue, welcome to the site.

Have you tried saving a photo at something other than 72 ppi? And then opened a second image, and see if the Image box now shows whatever ppi you last used?

Duh I figured it out, boy am I GREEN...........

wxwax