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The best way to understand the relationship between the amount of pixels, the resolution and the print size is to use the image size feature within Photoshop. So in this case we can see that this is the original amount of pixels that we are working with so around 3 000 pixels width and 4 000 pixels height which is roughly around 12 million pixels or megapixels and I don't want to confuse you but in case you want to be specific a megapixel is actually slightly more than a million pixels. It is actually 2 on the power of 20 pixels which is 1,048,576 pixels. But to keep things simple 1 megapixel you can think of as 1 million pixels. I took this photo with an iPhone which has 12 megapixels roughly and that's why we get this image size. But notice how the pixel dimensions automatically paired with the resolution which is by default set to 300 ppi or pixel per inch but what if I change and to be able to see the print size all I have to do is to switch the pixels to either inches or one of…

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