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Creating Images 3

How do I know how big to make the image?

The image needs to fit in your design. Hopefully,

you had carefully planned out your design before

going into Photoshop and know how big to make

the image. As long as you preserve the original

image, saving the cropped and resized image as a

copy, you could always return to it and resize if

needed.

What is the grid that appears when I crop my

image?

Photographers have long followed a “rule of thirds”

in composing images. Basically, the idea is that if

you divide the image into nine equal parts and put

the focal point of the image at the intersection of

two of the grid lines, you will have a more visually

interesting image. Photoshop’s Crop tool provides

the grid to help you achieve this.

● The image is resized.

Resize the Image

1 Click Image.

2 Click Image Size.

The Image Size dialog

box appears.

3 Enter a desired width.

Note: The height adjusts
automatically as you enter
a value for width.

4 Click OK.

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