Changing Your Resolutions

Today's tutorial is changing resolutions.I'm not talking about your personal resolutions, like your new year's resolutions. I'm talking about the resolutions of your pictures and digital elements. As defined by PhotoFinish, "Resolution is the interpreter between the physical world of inches and the digital world of pixels." Pixels is short for picture elements. A pixel is the smallest unit in a computer image or display. Every image on your computer is made up of a colored grid of pixels. So when you work with digital pictures [photographs, embellishments used in digital scrapbooking, etc.] you work with pixels.

Usually the digital papers and embellishments are made with a resolution of 300 pixels. The more pixels in a picture, the higher the resolution. The higher the resolution and the more files you have open super slows down your computer! If you have 5 pictures of 300 pixels each that would slow down your work time tremendously.

So here's what I do... I always change the resolution of each element I use to 150 ppi (pixels per inch) or dpi [dots per inch]. Go to IMAGE, then IMAGE SIZE, then DOCUMENT SIZE. Under RESOLUTION, change the size to 150 pixels per inch. Remember to use the same resolution for all elements you are going to use on a layout. Otherwise, you'll find that some elements [like a flower] might be larger than your background paper.



When closing the files you used, remember to not use "SAVE" otherwise you will be changing the resolutions of your originals.

Once you have completed a layout, then you can merge all your layers into one layer and save the entire layout using .jpg instead of .png. You can also change the jpeg resolution to 72. This is the resolution I use when uploading pictures into my websites.

If you have questions about this simple tutorial, please leave me a comment. Thank you.

TODAY!

Two excited teens. Can't wait till we get to the sky-diving place. We left the house at 6:45am to rendezvous at Kelly's. We left Kelly's around 8:00 am and drove north to East Troy, WI.
Map Quest was wrong [again!]. Instead of instructing us to go straight ahead [a slight right and straight] it said to turn left on R83. We turned around and missed the turn again! after 16 miles of driving we found the place!

It was raining when we got there. The skies were dark and I thought perhaps this is a sign? I was nervous about this plan, you know. Perhaps the dive will be cancelled. Perhaps we
can turn around now. Perhaps this will give the kids a time to think this over and change their minds?

Well, not really. They madeup their minds and stuck to the plan: sky-diving TODAY! May 3rd. Because today is Prom Day!

The staff showed us pictures and video of other sky divers; friendly young people. They talked about how many times they have jumped and how exciting it is. They even tried to persuade Terry [Kelly's mom] and I to join the dive. I said, no way, Jose. The reason I quit my other job was because I don't want to fly anymore.

The kids were excited. They couldn't wait to sign up. I read the contract... it's more for the benefit of the place and the staff; not ours. Oh, boy! The kids kept signing and
initialing each item. Did they even read what they were signing? Perhaps. But even if they won't agree with everything that's written, they've set their mind. TODAY!

One has to be at least 18 to dive. Parents can't even consent for anyone under 18. Parents have no say for kids who are 18. They are a separate individual entity! After signing we watched a video about the process, what to expect, the legalities... scary...

Like I said: SCARY!

We waited at the clubhouse. It was still raining and very windy. The staff said that they did fly and dive even in the rain but no one wants to do it again. The rain hurts terribly. They're worried about the raindrops hurting?





It rained and stopped and rained again. We tried to tell the kids to perhaps return the next day. Sunday's forecast was 60 degrees and sunny. The response? "It's not gonna happen!" it has to be TODAY!