Photoshop making webp images tiny

Question

Hey, hopefully someone can help me with this but when I drag and drop webp files into photoshop now they arrive TINY visually. They can be re-sized manually to fit the right size bit I didn’t need to do this like a week ago.

For some history, I work with a team of people doing some things with Dead By Daylight content. I was asked to make a photoshop file with all the killer perk icons. To do this I would drag and drop from the DBD Wiki page, it would save the image on my desktop as a webp and then I would drag and drop into PS and it would be the exact right size. Today when I went to update the PS and add some new perks and do something cool with the images of the killers they import at like 10% of the files dimensions and I can’t for the life of me see why. I also get a new PS popup about the color grading of the webp file that I did not used to get.

Now to get it to the right size I can either re-size manually to fit the page or I can right click the the file, open in PS, I get the same popup about webp colorgrading but I can pick to save as object or a copy and PS will then open it as a new document that i can copy and paste over. Both of these options are more steps than it was a week ago.

Anyone else in this boat with me?

D Fosse · Accepted Answer

First of all, don’t drag and drop from a web browser. You may not be getting the original image, but a cached proxy that may be lower resolution (and with the color profile stripped). Right-click and “Save As”.

And with all that said, image size is measured in pixels. Go to image size and check the pixel dimensions, how many pixels wide by how many pixels high. The size on screen depends on a lot of things. Check the zoom level, it needs to be 100% to show the real pixel size.

If it’s coming in as a smart object it also depends on the ppi number assigned to the Photoshop document. If the ppi numbers aren’t the same, or if one doesn’t have an assigned ppi value, you may get scaling of the smart object.

And finally, if you have a 4K/retina screen, be aware that everything is natively much smaller on screen. To compensate for this, the web browser automatically scales up images to 2x linear dimensions. This is the industry standard workaround to make sure the same material will display at the same size on screen, regardless of what screen technology the user happens to have. Photoshop doesn’t do that, it displays correctly, one image pixel to one physical screen pixel. Photoshop isn’t too small, the web browser is too big.

Stephen Marsh · Answer

The simplest way to rescale a raster smart object that has changed size due to mismatched resolution metadata is to use the Properties panel and the “reset transformations” button, which is a lossless method of returning to the original pixel dimensions. Don’t free transform unless you actually need to resample or interpolate the original pixel data.

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