Please keep being longwinded in exactly the way you're doing this. There's a HUGE difference between teaching and merely demonstrating. You're doing both, and because you take the time to thoughtfully explain the logic behind the different features of this software, you're helping viewers develop an intuitive understanding about how to best use it. Thank you!
As many people, I’m not a beginner , really, and I found this video extremely clarifying! Your in depth videos are so very helpful! Thank you for your time and devotion!!
I am not a beginner either and I am very grateful for this. Have been confused about this for years and your explanation is excellent. I finally understand. Can't wait for follow up. Thank you very much Colin.
Collin: As a high school teacher of Photoshop, I find that your explanations offer great supplemental information to my in class lessons and I utilize many of them (and will use this one as well)
I've worked as a production artist "producing mechanicals" in design agencies and they never explain to you regarding "Resolutions" (and they don't have to) but it was a term that I've never heard anybody explain it as clear as you do. So thank you very much for your explanation. 👍
Thank you, Colin. I'm not a beginner so I understood the basics; however, what finally sunk in after watching this was how to sync up the native screen display resolution and the display showing percentage to show the actual physical picture size on the screen....that could be measured with a ruler. For me, that has always been a swag deal previously. All I can say is DUH. My forehead is a little flatter now that I've smacked myself with the palm of my hand again. These beginner vids can always teach/re-teach one something. That's why I still watch them.
I've been working with PS as a serious hobby since I retired 3 years ago so my understanding of this topic has been "evolving." Your explanation is welcome and helpful at making the subject "instinctive" for me. The technical depth is perfect since I want a clear understanding. Days of the week are meaningless when one is retired, especially in this locked down world so anything works for releases. Thanks ever so much for all your help.
I have been trying to wrap my brain around photoshop for about 2 years. It such a learning curve. Knowing "why" something works the way it does helps imprint in my mind. The basics are great - I feel most educators start too advanced. I like to print so how ppi/inches translates on my screen is very beneficial before moving onto dpt/print. Thank you!
I am not a beginner yet this explanation is very, very helpful. I have watched many Photoshop tutorials and they tell you what resampling DOES, but they never tell you WHY one would want to use resample and why one shouldn't. I turned off resampling today and now my whole world of sizing photographs makes sense! Thank you for putting it in plain English that pixel size IS the true size. As far as feedback on the video length, you could separate the monitor resolution section from the image pixel size section to make the video more succinct if you want to improve it but the video is okay as is.
Yes, clarity helps. And refreshers help. Thanks. I’ve created some fairly sophisticated output over the years, but still consider myself a beginner because of lack of continuity and immersion. (I even leave notes in the files to remember how I achieved an effect. Smart Objects for example). So I’m going back to basics, and building up. This, and your tutorials on layers, and masks, and adjustments, well, all of the basics… super helpful. Thanks again.
The video was perfect. The length was perfect. Fast tutorials confuse me because so much is left out. I end up watching several of them to try and understand the main concept all because the tutors seem to be on a time restraint . More of these please..
Hi Colin, I've been doing design for many years & wish I would have seen this awesome video a long time ago! Being self-taught, I just stumbled through & tried to make sense out of it all. I design some very large murals & figured out a trick that seems to work to make a large graphic a smaller file. I design in actual physical size (or 50%) with high DPI & then after I'm finished making changes & before I send it out to be printed, I lower the resolution (with resample on), to 50 or 75 DPI. I know that if I made any changes after that, it would look pretty rough, but I make sure I'm done. Looking forward to Part 2!
Great Tutorial Colin! I've been working with Photoshop for over a decade, but all the facets of this basic have always been some of the hardest to grasp (even now I'm going to re-watch video. For me it doesn't matter what day of the week videos are released, always time poor, so I don't get to them straight away - but I do get to them! Thanks all your time & effort!!
Thanks for the video. I have explained this numerous times to website clients when they deliver 300dpi images although the contract says otherwise and that I charge extra for converting them or they will have a slow website. I will send them here in the future. Have a great weekend.
@@belindameitiboubis903 Yes... I think! It is the "dimensions" that are the transmitted data, not the ppi/dpi. The actual size-the megapixels-that are sent and processed/drawn by the receiving machine that would determine the perceived "speed" of the website. Correct?
@@belindameitiboubis903 I should have explained what I meant with that comment. I am no native speaker, so instead of writing a long comment, where I might be using wrong terms I rather show it in a short, unlisted video. Unfortunately I can't post the link, the comment got blocked, and I don't want to make the video public either because it doesn't fit the rest of my channel which is about 3D. So I add spaces and brackets and just hope it doesn't get blocked again. youtu [ dot ] be [ slash ] VZ_nQviZfXA
@@ChristinaMcKay Not blocked anymore :-) Hi! I was thinking about writing an answer here to explain what we are dealing with every day in the agency. But your video explains it much better, and I hope they now understand where we are coming from with those "300dpi images". CU
Thank you for this. I am not a beginner either, but I've been resizing on a hit or miss basis for years. Now I finally have a grip on how it works. I still use 72 ppi for online images even though you just taught me that many monitors are now at 82. As to length of your videos, take as long as it takes to explain and I will watch. The newest June Photoshop updates are amazing!
Great video. Just startet with photoshop and your tutorials are the best I found up to now. A couple of questions: - What DPI do you recomend as a minimum on photos for prints? - What PPI do you recomend as a minimum on photos for a webpage?
This is very on target! I have been with PS for years and still never really understood this subject. I do my own printing and you cleared the air. Fantastic video, and thanks for all your work on these.
Thank you! I’m a beginner. I have searched some many videos and articles to for help. Just this video alone has given me the fundamental knowledge of when my files and images are looking whack. Thank you, again!
Thank you very much Colin! I really appreciate that your videos for beginners are truly worded and paced for beginners. I am finally able to truly understand some basics in Photoshop. Your videos are helping me to find the tools, understand how to use them and you are easy to listen to. Thank you, thank you, thank you. LOL, I do not have to rewind the videos as frequently due to the slower pace for us beginners!
This video was easy to follow. I am not savvy in photo-editing. Colin makes it so easy to understand.Comprehensive for me. I think the pace suits me fine. Thanks!
This is one of the thing that i struggle with and can never find the right answers. I have been asked for prints of my work and sometimes they fit when i uploaded them and some they don't, so i tend not to sell many I can never work out what size they have to be for printing, i.e. i shoot with a 4 by 3 crop upload and edit them but when i go to upload them they don,t fit in an A4 size or the size i need. This is at last making me start to understand the resizing a bit more, so glad you said it is part one.
Very helpful. You clarify so much of what seemed like hieroglyphics.. I am trying to learn how to change the dpi in Photoshop to upload a beautiful high resolution cover.. THANK You
Hi, Colin, I am a beginner and look forward to all your beginner tutorials there are no videos on the internet that explain photoshop as well as you do without going over my head I am computer savvy but I find photoshop the most difficult to master, but the way you explain it makes it a lot easier to understand so thanks I found this very helpful.
Fantastic Colin! Just learned about you recently and after watching a few of your videos and have come to the conclusion you are one of the best photography related resources out there. Your ability to teach with empathy (taking into account varying skill levels watching) is uncanny. So for that...thank you. Very much looking forward to your resizing tutorial!!! Of late I have been printing 48”x 32” dye sublimation on metal and would love to hear your thoughts on preparing images not only for size but modifications for print on different materials. DR
Hey Colin! Thank you so much for explaining the complexity and very confusing subject in graphic design. They need to redevelop and redesign this part of graphic design and simply it so it is easy to understand and use.
So helpful to get the basics and clearly explained. Also not a beginer Colin but realy appreciate the resolution explanation as well as you do. Well done. Thanks!
Very interesting and well explained, very useful to know. These videos are about the right length as no point in giving a condensed confusing short version
Excellent content. Like others here I'm not a beginner, but I wish this had explained this to me years ago as clearly and concisely as you. Thank you. Your channel is awesome!
Oh God, you saved my life!! I had two images, same dimensions and same resolution. But I've never realized one was PixelsPerInch and the other PixelsPerCentimeter!!
Thanks for explaining it. Hopefully you will explain in very simple terms how to take an image and make it so it will print out in a specific size. I have had pictures printed out and parts of the image were cropped off in the enlarging process.
Great stuff Colin, keep it up & we'll keep watching whether we're beginners, pro's or somewhere in between even if it's just to reboot and refresh our memory banks. Beginners Saturday has a nice sound to it As for beginners length I'd hazard a guess of 15-20 minutes before it starts to become information overload. BTW I just googled my monitors specs & it came up as 82PPI
Thank you for clearing this up. Still a little fuzzy on the subject and it just means to watch a time or two. I am looking forward to your resizing video.
Colin: Thanks for this excellent video explaining a simple but often poorly understood topic. I am not a newbie to photoshop or photography, but I learned from this and found it helpful.
I have been using PS for some time but never truly understood dimensions/pixels on-screen Vs print. Thanks for explaining this core issue it at length.
Absolutely very useful, that explain some questions I was having few times in the past regarding this topic. And by the was, it does not matters the long of your videos, what matter is the delicious information you bring into my studio. Thank. you so much
wow so helpful! I cant believe Ive never learned this before in UNIVERSITY!!! thank you so much! you are a great teacher... you do care thanks a lot. please keep doing it!
This is incredibly useful! I have a hard time wrapping my head around file sizes etc even though I've used Photoshop for quite a while. This had never been explained fully. Thank you and I would like to know more about resampling when and how to use it.
Written notes: photoshopcafe.com/understanding-image-resolution-photoshop-beginners/
Part 2
(resampling) here: ua-cam.com/video/YyOXeO2bg4A/v-deo.html
Please keep being longwinded in exactly the way you're doing this. There's a HUGE difference between teaching and merely demonstrating. You're doing both, and because you take the time to thoughtfully explain the logic behind the different features of this software, you're helping viewers develop an intuitive understanding about how to best use it. Thank you!
As many people, I’m not a beginner , really, and I found this video extremely clarifying! Your in depth videos are so very helpful! Thank you for your time and devotion!!
I am not a beginner either and I am very grateful for this. Have been confused about this for years and your explanation is excellent. I finally understand. Can't wait for follow up. Thank you very much Colin.
Collin: As a high school teacher of Photoshop, I find that your explanations offer great supplemental information to my in class lessons and I utilize many of them (and will use this one as well)
I've worked as a production artist "producing mechanicals" in design agencies and they never explain to you regarding "Resolutions" (and they don't have to) but it was a term that I've never heard anybody explain it as clear as you do. So thank you very much for your explanation. 👍
Thank you, Colin. I'm not a beginner so I understood the basics; however, what finally sunk in after watching this was how to sync up the native screen display resolution and the display showing percentage to show the actual physical picture size on the screen....that could be measured with a ruler. For me, that has always been a swag deal previously. All I can say is DUH. My forehead is a little flatter now that I've smacked myself with the palm of my hand again. These beginner vids can always teach/re-teach one something. That's why I still watch them.
I've been working with PS as a serious hobby since I retired 3 years ago so my understanding of this topic has been "evolving." Your explanation is welcome and helpful at making the subject "instinctive" for me. The technical depth is perfect since I want a clear understanding. Days of the week are meaningless when one is retired, especially in this locked down world so anything works for releases. Thanks ever so much for all your help.
I'm not a beginner but find this very interesting. because we have this conversation with many starters, so thanks for this!
I have been trying to wrap my brain around photoshop for about 2 years. It such a learning curve. Knowing "why" something works the way it does helps imprint in my mind. The basics are great - I feel most educators start too advanced. I like to print so how ppi/inches translates on my screen is very beneficial before moving onto dpt/print. Thank you!
I am not a beginner yet this explanation is very, very helpful. I have watched many Photoshop tutorials and they tell you what resampling DOES, but they never tell you WHY one would want to use resample and why one shouldn't. I turned off resampling today and now my whole world of sizing photographs makes sense! Thank you for putting it in plain English that pixel size IS the true size. As far as feedback on the video length, you could separate the monitor resolution section from the image pixel size section to make the video more succinct if you want to improve it but the video is okay as is.
EXPLAINED VERY WELL THANK YOU SIR
Yes, clarity helps. And refreshers help. Thanks. I’ve created some fairly sophisticated output over the years, but still consider myself a beginner because of lack of continuity and immersion. (I even leave notes in the files to remember how I achieved an effect. Smart Objects for example). So I’m going back to basics, and building up. This, and your tutorials on layers, and masks, and adjustments, well, all of the basics… super helpful. Thanks again.
The video was perfect. The length was perfect. Fast tutorials confuse me because so much is left out. I end up watching several of them to try and understand the main concept all because the tutors seem to be on a time restraint . More of these please..
Extremely useful. Very informative. I’ll hav to watch it a couple of times, but it’s worth it.
I'm not a beginner either and found this to be extremely helpful. Thank you.
Hi Colin, I've been doing design for many years & wish I would have seen this awesome video a long time ago! Being self-taught, I just stumbled through & tried to make sense out of it all.
I design some very large murals & figured out a trick that seems to work to make a large graphic a smaller file.
I design in actual physical size (or 50%) with high DPI & then after I'm finished making changes & before I send it out to be printed, I lower the resolution (with resample on), to 50 or 75 DPI.
I know that if I made any changes after that, it would look pretty rough, but I make sure I'm done.
Looking forward to Part 2!
Wow, I am watching this in 2023 and for the first time, in many years, I have a far better understanding image resolution. Thank you.
Great Tutorial Colin! I've been working with Photoshop for over a decade, but all the facets of this basic have always been some of the hardest to grasp (even now I'm going to re-watch video. For me it doesn't matter what day of the week videos are released, always time poor, so I don't get to them straight away - but I do get to them! Thanks all your time & effort!!
This ain't just for beginners! I've been in graphics & print for many years and was still confused....until now! Thanks Colin!
Another excellent video - thank you! I have watched this multiple times over that past couple of year's to keep refreshing my understanding.
Thanks for the video. I have explained this numerous times to website clients when they deliver 300dpi images although the contract says otherwise and that I charge extra for converting them or they will have a slow website. I will send them here in the future.
Have a great weekend.
@@belindameitiboubis903 Yes... I think! It is the "dimensions" that are the transmitted data, not the ppi/dpi. The actual size-the megapixels-that are sent and processed/drawn by the receiving machine that would determine the perceived "speed" of the website. Correct?
We will be covering file size and compression in the next video in this series.
@@belindameitiboubis903 I should have explained what I meant with that comment. I am no native speaker, so instead of writing a long comment, where I might be using wrong terms I rather show it in a short, unlisted video. Unfortunately I can't post the link, the comment got blocked, and I don't want to make the video public either because it doesn't fit the rest of my channel which is about 3D. So I add spaces and brackets and just hope it doesn't get blocked again. youtu [ dot ] be [ slash ] VZ_nQviZfXA
@@ChristinaMcKay Not blocked anymore :-)
Hi! I was thinking about writing an answer here to explain what we are dealing with every day in the agency. But your video explains it much better, and I hope they now understand where we are coming from with those "300dpi images". CU
Thank you for this. I am not a beginner either, but I've been resizing on a hit or miss basis for years. Now I finally have a grip on how it works. I still use 72 ppi for online images even though you just taught me that many monitors are now at 82. As to length of your videos, take as long as it takes to explain and I will watch. The newest June Photoshop updates are amazing!
Great video. Just startet with photoshop and your tutorials are the best I found up to now.
A couple of questions:
- What DPI do you recomend as a minimum on photos for prints?
- What PPI do you recomend as a minimum on photos for a webpage?
Thanks!
1. 300ppi
2. 72ppi
This is very on target! I have been with PS for years and still never really understood this subject. I do my own printing and you cleared the air. Fantastic video, and thanks for all your work on these.
Thank you! I’m a beginner. I have searched some many videos and articles to for help. Just this video alone has given me the fundamental knowledge of when my files and images are looking whack. Thank you, again!
You're welcome
Thank you very much Colin! I really appreciate that your videos for beginners are truly worded and paced for beginners. I am finally able to truly understand some basics in Photoshop. Your videos are helping me to find the tools, understand how to use them and you are easy to listen to. Thank you, thank you, thank you. LOL, I do not have to rewind the videos as frequently due to the slower pace for us beginners!
This video was easy to follow. I am not savvy in photo-editing. Colin makes it so easy to understand.Comprehensive for me. I think the pace suits me fine. Thanks!
Very useful - you explained it well - You are beginning to lift the veil and revealing understanding for me. ! - Now ready for Part 2.
Thank you for explaining in such a good comprehensive way.
This is one of the thing that i struggle with and can never find the right answers. I have been asked for prints of my work and sometimes they fit when i uploaded them and some they don't, so i tend not to sell many I can never work out what size they have to be for printing, i.e. i shoot with a 4 by 3 crop upload and edit them but when i go to upload them they don,t fit in an A4 size or the size i need. This is at last making me start to understand the resizing a bit more, so glad you said it is part one.
I have worked in print for over 30 years and find this video interesting. looking forward to your future videos.
Very helpful. You clarify so much of what seemed like hieroglyphics.. I am trying to learn how to change the dpi in Photoshop to upload a beautiful high resolution cover.. THANK You
Hi, Colin, I am a beginner and look forward to all your beginner tutorials there are no videos on the internet that explain photoshop as well as you do without going over my head I am computer savvy but I find photoshop the most difficult to master, but the way you explain it makes it a lot easier to understand so thanks I found this very helpful.
Awesome, thank you!
Loved it. I have been trying to figure this subject our for several years. Thanks. Can't wait for part 2.
Fantastic Colin! Just learned about you recently and after watching a few of your videos and have come to the conclusion you are one of the best photography related resources out there. Your ability to teach with empathy (taking into account varying skill levels watching) is uncanny. So for that...thank you. Very much looking forward to your resizing tutorial!!! Of late I have been printing 48”x 32” dye sublimation on metal and would love to hear your thoughts on preparing images not only for size but modifications for print on different materials. DR
thankyou thankyou! Have been trying to find an explanation of this for ages. Completely clear!
Hey Colin! Thank you so much for explaining the complexity and very confusing subject in graphic design. They need to redevelop and redesign this part of graphic design and simply it so it is easy to understand and use.
So helpful to get the basics and clearly explained. Also not a beginer Colin but realy appreciate the resolution explanation as well as you do. Well done. Thanks!
Great! You have clarified this for me and also told me things I didn't know
I keep saying it but this one is really the best one yet. Even for us old guys. Keep'em just like you are doing.
Loved it... make them as long as you want aslong as they are informative i`ll keep viewing. Post anyday i`ll catch up with it...
Thank you! Very solid. I have been doing this for several years but could always use refreshers. Keep it up.
Thanks Colin, very helpful and not too long, just very complete!
Yes , I’m really loving this beginner way. Resizing especially ! Thank you Colin have nice weekend
Thank you! You too!
I really really thank you. I was given up on photoshop for a while until I found this channel. Very easy to understand. Thank You!!
Really appreciate this. I've worked with photoshop for years and resolution is something I've always been fuzzy on.
no pun intended?
@@photoshopcafe Laughing. Nice to know someone still has a sense of humor. Thanks again.
Very interesting and well explained, very useful to know. These videos are about the right length as no point in giving a condensed confusing short version
Thank you for explaining this in such a detail. It clarified my basics for resizing!
Thank you so much for the video ! I was confused on this topic for years and finally got it after watching your video. Much appreciated!
YES, very useful info! Repetition is good when learning something really new!
Excellent content. Like others here I'm not a beginner, but I wish this had explained this to me years ago as clearly and concisely as you. Thank you. Your channel is awesome!
Great explanation you gave by dpi versus ppi. I'm looking forward to seeing the video part 2. Congratulations. Thank you .
Made sense. Can I repeat it....probably not, but I know where to come back to when I have myself confused. Keep up the beginner videos!
Oh God, you saved my life!! I had two images, same dimensions and same resolution. But I've never realized one was PixelsPerInch and the other PixelsPerCentimeter!!
Love the way how you explain it ,nice and simple,thank you
Thanks for explaining it. Hopefully you will explain in very simple terms how to take an image and make it so it will print out in a specific size. I have had pictures printed out and parts of the image were cropped off in the enlarging process.
Very interesting and helpful you explain everything perfect, thank you so much.
Again, excellent presentation. The length was good.
This video is interesting and has a lot of good information that helped me to understand Thanks
Great stuff Colin, keep it up & we'll keep watching whether we're beginners, pro's or somewhere in between even if it's just to reboot and refresh our memory banks.
Beginners Saturday has a nice sound to it
As for beginners length I'd hazard a guess of 15-20 minutes before it starts to become information overload.
BTW I just googled my monitors specs & it came up as 82PPI
Great as usual. I agree with Marc Vanpoecke
Thank you for clearing this up. Still a little fuzzy on the subject and it just means to watch a time or two. I am looking forward to your resizing video.
Thanks. I've struggled with this for a long time. Looking forward to Part II, Resizing, especially for print.
Great video. I think when you’re delivering useful and critical content, time doesn’t really matter.
THANK YOU for this explanation. I can’t wait to part 2- resizing.
As always, video is so informative and you explained so well. Thanks
Colin: Thanks for this excellent video explaining a simple but often poorly understood topic. I am not a newbie to photoshop or photography, but I learned from this and found it helpful.
Very useful. I was always confused about this topic. Thank you. Explained perfectly
Very informative! Length was fine. Easily understandable!
looking forward to part 2...video length doesn't matter long or short is ok!
Perfect explanation and it was not too long. Just right
I have been using PS for some time but never truly understood dimensions/pixels on-screen Vs print. Thanks for explaining this core issue it at length.
I'm not a beginner either and found this to be extremely helpful. Thank you Colin.
Absolutely very useful, that explain some questions I was having few times in the past regarding this topic. And by the was, it does not matters the long of your videos, what matter is the delicious information you bring into my studio. Thank. you so much
Dpi is relevant for printing machines: laser and inkjet printers. It specifies how much inkspots or inkparticles it can put on the paper per inch.
Very good explanation. Thank you!
Just a wonderful explanation. Thank you very much
love this video.. crystal clear 💕thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. More power and God bless 😊
I am a beginner . plz keep making photoshop tutorials. It really helps a lot. Thanks!!
Long time needed, (I'm not a beginner). Thank you Colin!
wow so helpful! I cant believe Ive never learned this before in UNIVERSITY!!! thank you so much! you are a great teacher... you do care thanks a lot. please keep doing it!
Very well explained Colin, I come from a print background as well. Will share this with club members and hopefully they will understand better.
This was a great video.
Though I would like to see basics of a photo retouching. Like brightness, colour, and recovery of scratches.
Thank you so much for such amazing explanation 😃😃. Have a great day
Great info and I look forward to Part 2. Can you explain what the resample command does and when to use it?
Will do
This is incredibly useful! I have a hard time wrapping my head around file sizes etc even though I've used Photoshop for quite a while. This had never been explained fully. Thank you and I would like to know more about resampling when and how to use it.
The next video after that "resizing" is part 2.
@@photoshopcafe thank you!
Very well presented and succinctly explained
Thank you so much, loved the detailed explanation
Very interesting and informative!
Thanks for sharing!
Very good, very informative. For a specific topic like this, I think 15-20 minutes is good. Keep 'em coming (Oh yeah..I like Saturdays for these).
Thanks! Very informative and useful as always.
About time someone explained this. Thank you
I'm not a beginner either, but you enabled me to really understand why I'm doing what I'm doing! Thanks.
Thank you Colin, now I know why those things happen.
great video thanks it really helped me out on understanding better
Just what I needed! Thank you so much!
Great stuff and beautifully explained.
Thank you so much for explaining this!
Thanks so much for this, I have had a mental block regarding resolution for so long .... ! Good length video, the repetition is useful. Perfect.
I was watching a guitar tutorial and the guy was repetitive and it helped, so I stole the idea :)