Inside Photoshop® CS

Printing Options in Photoshop

Now I'd like to cover two categories of output that are under Photoshop's roof. First, printing from Photoshop is not as effortless as, say, printing from Microsoft Word. But then again, you're printing art from Photoshop, while you're printing formatted text from Word—and there's a chasm of sophistication you would need to ford to bring the two application printing engines even remotely closer together.

Let's first look at how Photoshop lets you know when the resolution of a file you want to print needs tuning.

The Image Size Command: A Career-Saver

Remember the “image dimensions decrease as resolution increases” line a few pages back? Well, Photoshop is a very strict enforcer of correct image dimensions. It's a ...