User's Manual

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS2

User Guide

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Video preset file size guides

A. Action safe area (outer rectangle) B. Title safe area (inner rectangle)

For more options, click the Advanced button to specify a color profile and specific pixel aspect ratio.

Important: By default, nonsquare pixel documents open with Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction enabled. This scales the

image as it would look on the nonsquare-pixel output device (usually a video monitor).

3 (Optional) Choose View > Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction to turn off the scaling correction and view the image as

it displays on a computer (square pixel) monitor.

A circle in a NTSC DV 720 x 480 document viewed on a (square pixel) computer monitor with Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction turned on (top)

and Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction turned off (bottom)

You can simultaneously view an image with the Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction turned on and turned off. With the

nonsquare pixel image open and Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction enabled, choose Window > Arrange > New Window

for [name of document]. With the new window active, choose View > Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction to turn the

correction off.

4 If you have a display device, such as a video monitor, connected to your computer via FireWire, do one of the

following to preview your document on the device:

• To set output options before viewing your image on the device, choose File > Export > Video Preview.

• To view your image immediately on the device without setting any output options, choose File > Export > Send

Video Preview To Device.