Copying and Pasting frames from Indesign to Photoshop and Illustrator at same size and dpi

[TejadaCapellan]

Greetings! Today, I am trying to copy and paste a frame from Indesign into a new document in Photoshop (and a new document in Illustrator) with the same size and dpi as it appears in Indesign.
You could download this image from Wikimedia:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa2.jpg 

In this screenshot, the image frame size is 9.9861 inches by 6.7231 inches with 823 dpi. 

When you paste this frame inside a new document in Photoshop and Illustrator,  the size is exactly the same (9.9861 inches by 6.7231 inches) but the dpi is way off.

In Photoshop, the document is 72 dpi (with a vector smart object in a different layer) and inside Illustrator, the image is 411 dpi (half the dpi of the image inside Indesign).

My question is: How could I copy this frame at the same dpi as it appears inside Indesign (823 dpi) within a new document of Photoshop (and within a new document of Illustrator)?

Thanks in advance!

Al

[leo.r]

In general, you need to work with the original image file, not its preview - which is what you see in InDesign.

823 ppi is the effective resolution of the scaled image in InDesign.

To achieve the same in Photoshop, you'll need to open the original image in Photoshop and use the Image Size command to apply the same scale you used in InDesign.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

There are onions' worth of layers here, but keep in mind two things: DPI is something of a phantom value, bordering on meaningless in many of the ways it's often used and referenced, and cut-and-paste is a convenient but not wholly stable method of placing content. I think the two are adding up on you here to create something an illusion of more variation and chaos than actually exists in the workflows.

[Willi Adelberger]

First of all, image resolution is not dpi, it is ppi. 

The best way to get images from one application to the other is not copy and paste. Save the images in an appropriate file type (psd, ai or pdf/x-4) and place them as LINKED files. When you ser them in InDesign as 100%, images will be n the same size and resolution. 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

And then there's PPI vs DPI, yes. 🙂

I tend to let that slide until the rest of the discussion is framed.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Hi @TejadaCapellan , Not sure if this helps but you can also select the frame and Export to either JPEG or PNG, set the Export Resolution to the 823PPI Effective resolution and the exported image will open into Photoshop at the same 9.9861 x 6.7231 output dimensions.

[TejadaCapellan]

This feature works great! Many, many thanks for your answer.