: Placed Image in Photoshop is larger than actual size, regardless of PPI I'm currently experiencing a weird issue with placing images in photoshop. I currently am trying to place an png that

@Murray976

You're complaining that the placed image is the same size when you are specifically telling Photoshop to resize when placed. I also do not understand what you expect to occur with that setting active and different sized images are being placed.

A PNG@240ppi will simply be increased in width and height when compared to a PNG@72ppi. If you have Resize Image When Placed on, then that increased width and height is changed when you place the image so it fits within the canvas bounds.

Turn off Resize Image When Placed and place a 72ppi PNG and a 240ppi PNG... there's a difference.

PNGs (and sometimes JPGs) may not store a PPI setting internally. Instead they merely increase the width and height of the image to accommodate the additional pixels. If everything is resized when placed, it's all going to look the same to you. When you place a 240ppi image it may be reduced, condensing the pixels into a higher resolution. If you place a 72ppi image it may be enlarged stretching the pixels to a lower resolution.

I don't understand why you need things to fit the canvas bounds emphatically. Turn off that setting, place your 240PPi image and then use Free Transform to reduce it to the desired size.

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