Indeed an advantage, but also choosing "edit with" for a JPG in Photoshop can achieve similar options I believe when within an InDesign document. But we are going slightly off point here. I am aware that commercial printers will require a print-ready PDF, but the resolution of those images within it must be 300dpi (at least for the EU printers that I work with). I use many stock photos in my work and download them as 300dpi images, to use in my designs/documents. They are usually JPG file format. I therefore wish to retain the original DPI of the images. My initial question is Why does the Export As option in PS change the DPI to 72 from 300 when you Export. Forget about the Save As option, I know about that and specifying that in the settings, what I want to know is what the Export As function is designed for, when it should and shouldn't be used, and why when it is used, it changes a 300ppi image to a 72ppi setting, seemingly by default.
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