marlenep61648856 wrote: Help! I am making a collage of photos on a background in Photoshop Elements. Each of my photos plus my background are anywhere from 1-9 MB. I have to resize my photos to be small on my background, so I'm going to "Image Size" and resizing them so the resolution is not lost. But then when I go to save my new creation as a jpeg, it will only save at around 200 KB. What is going wrong? I've watched a million videos online and tried everything I know, but I still can't get it to work. Any ideas?? Thanks so much! Here are the ground rules: It's best if the resolution of the background, and of the picture files, be the same value. For printing, resolution of 240-300 px/in recommended. For web work, 72px/in is ok How to get there: Go to File>New>Blank file. Assuming that you wish to print, enter the height &width of your paper stock, and resolution=300px/in. In the layers palette, this will be the Background Layer. Next, prepare each of the individual picture files. Since you have to crop, use the crop tool. On the tool's option bar, set the resolution to 300 px/in as well. Copy/paste each picture to the blank (background) file. Each picture should come in on a separate layer. Use the move tool, and the corner handles of the bounding box, to position and make minor size adjustments.
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