problem loading rendered Image into PhotoShop

When I open one of my jpeg renderings in photoshop, the image size reads as 12.5 inches x 5.44 inches at 72 dpi. When I copy it into one of my layouts (also in photoshop), the image shrinks down to 3 inches x 1.26 inches and I am forced to enlarge it (I want it at least 6 inches wide). When I enlarge the image, it is horribly distorted and blurry, whereas the original rendering is quite crisp and clean. I do not understand why it shrinks when I put it in another document in the same program. I would rather shrink the original rendering down to the size I want because there is a much smaller chance of distortion. I just cannot figure out why the size changes when I copy and paste within the same program.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on April 6, 2012 at 11:40am

What resolution did you render to? (12.5 x 72 = 900)

If you can, upload the image you are inserting and upload a Photoshop file you want to insert it into and perhaps one of our Photoshop "experts" can help out.

You can create a new, almost empty PhotoShop layout for insertion, and you should save the one with the inserted image which looks bad, so we can all see what we are looking at.

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Permalink Reply by Jayne Leighty on April 6, 2012 at 12:46pm

One of my renderings is attached. I chose "large" for rendering size within irendernxt. When opened in photoshop the size reads 12.5 x 5.44 inches. When copied and pasted into ANY photoshop document, it shrinks down to 3 x 1.26 inches and I am forced to enlarge it and it distorts.

The photoshop file is too large to upload and if I flatten it, the images cannot be inspected individually.

Attachments:

LARGE CONFERENCE.jpg, 95 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jayne Leighty on April 6, 2012 at 12:55pm

Original file when opened in photoshop:

Image after I copy and paste into a new 11x 17 layout in photoshop (noted that image size is referring to document size. ruler included so you can see how image shrinks.)

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on April 6, 2012 at 1:29pm

Note that your new PhotShop document is 300 DPI. So when you place your 900 pixel image in it, it sets it to 3" wide (3" x 300 DPI = 900 pixels). You probably do not need a 300 DPI Photoshop document.

Try making the Photoshop Document 150DPI, and if you wat the rendered image to be 8" wide, for example, then render it to 8 x 150, or 1200 pixels. Then when you paste it, it will paste ad 8".

Still - it would help if some other Photoshop users joined this thread to offer some help.

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Permalink Reply by Richcat on April 6, 2012 at 2:31pm

Hi I use an old photoshop elements but should be nearly the same

Top image - straight download unchanged pasted into 300dpi A3, the image below that was changed to 300 pixels inch with image resize (did not change size) before pasting, but I notice you have constrain proportions selected and but not resample image which is normally - I choose bicubic smoother, and pasted into same A3, flatten and saved.

I always find PS tends to view quite pixellated but when saved as jpg gets smoothed out.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on April 6, 2012 at 3:10pm

So, Richcat's main suggestion is to ignore that it looks pixellated when placed in your Photoshop document, but the save the Photoshop document as a JPG image to see if it will look OK when viewed as an image, or printed.

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Permalink Reply by Jayne Leighty on April 6, 2012 at 3:14pm

It still looks fuzzy when printed. I am playing with dpi in photoshop and pixel size in irendernxt right now. I think I'm close to a solution - will know within the hour. This has been so helpful. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Jayne Leighty on April 6, 2012 at 3:24pm

All of the combined suggestions worked! I rendered at a higher pixel size and played with the dpi in photoshop and now the renderings look crisp and clean in my project booklet. Thank you so much, everyone, for your help.