Learn Adobe Photoshop - Units and Rulers Preferences
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In this video, Mahalo expert Gene Shaw explains the preferences and options available in the Units and Rulers tab.
Units and Rulers Preferences
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Inches, pixels, centimeters, picas and percent are some of the options that are available to you in the Units and Rulers preferences.
1. Open the Preferences menu by pressing Ctrl+K (Command+K for Mac) and click on the tab Units and Rulers Preferences.
2. The first two sections of this panel won't change anything size-wise; they will only change how the size if reported to you and appears on your screen.
3. Under the Rulers setting, you're given the option to display your ruler as pixels, inches, centimeters, millimeters, points, picas and percent.
4. Type, which refers to can be displayed as pixels, points or millimeters.
5. Column Size is a unit of measurement used in the new Image Size and Canvas Size dialogue boxes. Again, your options are inches, centimeters, millimeters, points and picas.
6. New Document Preset Resolutions is essentially how Photoshop decides how large you want to work when it opens up a new document. 300 pixels per inch is standard for Print Resolution. Screen Resolution is typically going to be set at 72 pixels per inch because that is the standard resolution for monitors, but Gene likes to set it to 150 because he prefers to see extremely crisp images when he prepares documents for the web.
7. Under Point/Pica Size, PostScript is the setting you want.
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