Resize Image during place, even when turned off in Pref.

Hi, are you sure?? I have "Resize Image During Place" turned off, I also have "Always Create Smart Objects when Placing" turned off. If the image resizes anyway during place, what is the option in the prefs for? Seems like an extra unnessesary step to have to open a pic into photoshop, just to cut and paste into antoher doc.

Yes, it seems to be honoring the image ppi when placing, not the actual pixel dimension which I find odd that a decision was made to make it do that, as it can severly degrade a placed image (e.g., placing a 72ppi/10" image into a 300ppi/5" image). Not sure how long that's been the case... been using PS since the 90s. In print, I'm always paying attention to the ppi, not the supposed image (inch/cm) dimension as minimum print is around 230-300ppi (depending on type of printing, large format can be as low as 30ppi). When placed in, say Indesign, a 72ppi jpg can be reduced to 20% scale and this effectively makes it a 360ppi image (72*5, becuase you're increasing the number of pixels per inch by physically reducing the image), but a 300ppi image enlarged 200% is basically a 150ppi now, and the larger you go, the more crappy the image gets. Photoshop is resizing a place image and re-sampling it.

Yet another option is to use a script to place linked or embedded at 1:1 scale, ignoring the resolution difference between the source and destination document (i.e. making place work like copy/paste):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/scripts-to-place-embedded-amp-place-linked-at-1-1-scale-ignoring-ppi/m-p/14032422

"If you don't need or want smart objects, do it the normal way, copy and paste."

Another option is to ensure that imported images and the parent document have exactly the same PPI before placing the image.

This is how it's supposed to work. Don't use Place.

Place creates a Smart Object, and smart objects have special rules. One rule is that smart objects honor physical sizes, as defined by the ppi number, not the pixel dimensions. This is to ensure compatibility with vector data - it makes a raster image behave like a vector object.

If you don't need or want smart objects, do it the normal way, copy and paste.

The "resize during place" checkbox is a bit misnamed. All it does is prevent oversizing by limiting to the document boundaries.