one for the PS experts

[cirks]

Ok, I must be missing something obvious. I'm used to dragging/moving one image or layer from one picture to another one (ie shift-drag and move tool) - however, I normally rescale the image once it's in the new document. What I'm trying to do now is to move say a 5cmx5cm image into a new document and keep it at 5cmx5cm (the target is A4). What PS (well, Elements actually) is doing is resizing the dragged image - sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller. If I have a load of pre-sized images that I want to move, it's a real pain to have to then resize them back to what they should be once they are in the target document.

Hope the above makes sense...

What am I doing wrong?

[Greg964]

All i can think of is that your zoom levels are different in the 2 images.

[cirks]

nope - even with both at 100% it still doesn't drag over at the same size as the original

[AndyKH]

Are the resolution of the pictures the same?

[cirks]

funnily Andy - I just noticed that they aren't Which, as an example, means that the 5x5 image which is at 167.132pixels/inch in the original, becomes 2.79cmx2.79cm at 300pixels/inch in the target.
So, since all the source files are different sizes (crops of originals) and therefore have become different resolutions (fortunately, normally >300ppi) is there a easy way I can do the moving without having to resize again in the target?

[AndyKH]

Just change the resolution of all images to 300dpi before moving them making sure that they stay the same'physical' size. Shouuld work the when you drop and drag, personally i prefer to 'apple c' then 'apple v' when i'm copying images for some reason.

[cirks]

that works a treat - thanks a lot

[AndyKH]

No problem mate, glad i was able to help.