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Photoshop CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Photoshop CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas
November 2008
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
456 pages
18h 28m
English
Peachpit Press
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6. Pixel Basics

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Before applying adjustment or image-editing commands, you need to make sure your document is the proper size and orientation and is cropped to your liking. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to change the resolution and dimensions of an image; change its canvas size; and crop, flip, rotate, and straighten it.

Changing resolution and dimensions

In this section, you’ll encounter three terms:

• The number of pixels a file contains is its pixel count

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