pixellated?

[Elana]

Hi Damien, 

 

I have some photos that I'm putting into a 5x7 collage for a client. The photos before I put them into the collage look nice, not pixellated etc. As soon as I put them into the collage, when fit to screen they look fine but when I zoom into 100% they look pixellated? I have been doing the zoom with command + as you told me before so are these just appearing pixelated because I've zoomed in making a tiny (each one is 4cm big) image really big on the screen? I just want to make sure it doesn't print pixellated. 

One picture below is the 700 px x 700 px crop. 

[Damien Symonds]

It looks like you copied/pasted, instead of using File>Place.  That's really bad.  You must only ever use File>Place.

I urge you to read over that part of the Layers & Masks Class again.

[Elana]

Weird...my pictures above don't appear pixelated...When I zoom in it looks like this:

Okay, thanks, will do!

[Damien Symonds]

What the heck?  Duh!  You're at 300% zoom!

[Elana]

Lol, okay, that's what I was wondering...if it was just pixelly because I was zoomed in...so it won't look pixelly when I print it? This picture shows it when I did place embedded instead of copy and paste.

This first picture is 100% with place embedded and the second picture is the same thing but at 300%...I'm good to go then, right? I'm not blond...just so sleep deprived!

[Damien Symonds]

41 minutes ago, Elana said:

so it won't look pixelly when I print it?

No ... as long as you're damn sure you've set up the template at the right size and resolution.