Hey, I have a question. In some pics of mine, when I want to print it, it prints really, really small! It's like that in the Print Preview too. What's going on!! I hate it. I want it the whole size. It's set to 100% in the Print Options. Please help me!!!!!!!

Open Image, Image Size. Make sure Resample is off, Constrain is on, set the desired size in inches. If you don't have enough pixels-per-inch it isn't going to be a good print, but it will be the size set.

When I took resample off, contrained got greyed out, and it still didn't work.

Make sure your image is the correct DPI that you want it. Example: Image is 4"x5" at 300 DPI.Don't try to diddle around with print options, they are after the fact.

I haven't messed with anything like that. My image is something by something at 300DPI. Arrrgggh.

Josiapugh.Unless you are instructing your printer to reduce the image what Jim and Spanfarkle have said should solve your problem.Make sure that when you look at image size you check not just the dpi but the size in inches of your image.An image can be 800x600 pixels at 300dpi and fill up your whole screen but still only be like 1"x1" print size. I may be wrong but you seem from the questions you,ve posted to be new to photoshop but keen to learn.Can I direct you to a tutorials site that covers just about every level.I find if you work your way through a few tutorials you pick up a great deal of peripheral information that comes in handy for other projects.Thats how I started out and I found it more usefull than trying to learn in a kind of hit & miss fashion. http://graphicssoft.about.com/compute/graphicssoft/msubmenu1.htm?once=true& I know its a long,long url but just copy & paste it into your address line.

If you go under your view menu there is "show print size". This will show the printing size no matter what the DPI.If everything seems to be set-up proper in PS, then maybe something with your printer specs, outside of PS.Are you on a Mac or PC?

Another thing: if you click on the status bar at the bottom, on the file size (where it says "Doc 494/494k" or whatever it will give you a preview of how the image will fit on the paper.

Hey Jim!That status bar tip is totaly new to me.Thank you.Thats the joy of sites like this there is always something new to learn.

Well, I'm on a Mac, and I've been around Photoshop for a while, and am quite good at it. When I adjust the print size under image, from 2in by 1in or something like that to 7in by whatever, it makes it bigger, and it's the correct size at 25% zoomed out. And I know that it is like so that it is like 1200x1200 and I'm pretty sure that that's larger than a page, but it is just right on here. This is really wierd and I'm convinced that it is some sort of bug with Photoshop. I even created a new doc in Photoshop and copied and pasted everything into the new page. I don't know if the fact that it is CYMK would affect anything. I don't think it should.

Okay, I think I may have figured something out. say 640x480 at 72 dpi is not the same as 640x480 at 300 dpi. When I went to up the dpi from 72 to 300, I had Contrain Proportions checked, that somebody told me to check above, and so the size adjusted with the dpi. Before I didn't have this check, therefore the dpi was 300 and the size was 640x480 making it really small. But when I had Contrain Proportions checked and typed in 300 for the dpi, the sizes came up to be 2667x2000. So it's kina wierd, if anybody can explain this I would appreciate it, but at least I figured it out.

Constrain proportions just makes sure that if you change one dimension, the other changes proportionately.If you have resample image checked off and change your dpi, like say from 72 to 300, then the image size will change and become smaller in dimension.

yup. thanks for everyone's help!