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October 20, 2022
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Units & Rulers

  • October 20, 2022
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When I changed the units to Millimeters for creating a banner I needed to make a rectangular box with specific dimensions for the "safe printing" area, but the tool's units were still set to pixels and not millimetres.

 

Please make it so the tool also changes to millimeters.

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D Fosse
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October 20, 2022

This sounds like something you would do with crop marks in InDesign.

 

Just to clarify the basic concepts: a raster image file doesn't have a size, only pixels. That's the unit Photoshop always works with, at the core it has no concept of what a millimeter is.

 

The print size is determined by whatever pixels per inch-value you have assigned. Any metric measurement in Photoshop is a recalculation from the ppi number.

 

Make a feature request under the "ideas" subsection to get this recalculation applied in the tool of your choice. If the request gets upvotes, it will be considered, the more, the better chance.