https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/problems-with-resolution-exporting-to-photoshop-help/m-p/213633#M115850 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>i've done several elevations using 2d line tool in archicad 14 at a scale of 1:200, i saved them as a pdf and opened them in photoshop however the scale goes massive, when i reduce the size of the image in PS from 100% to 10% the resolution looks really poor. any ideas how to overcome this problem please help deadline is approaching</T></DIV> Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:24:10 GMT Anonymous 2010-10-09T11:24:10Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/problems-with-resolution-exporting-to-photoshop-help/m-p/213633#M115850 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>i've done several elevations using 2d line tool in archicad 14 at a scale of 1:200, i saved them as a pdf and opened them in photoshop however the scale goes massive, when i reduce the size of the image in PS from 100% to 10% the resolution looks really poor. any ideas how to overcome this problem please help deadline is approaching</T></DIV> Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:24:10 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/problems-with-resolution-exporting-to-photoshop-help/m-p/213633#M115850 Anonymous 2010-10-09T11:24:10Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/problems-with-resolution-exporting-to-photoshop-help/m-p/213634#M115851 Any particular reason why you're doing the elevations in 2D pen instead of using the elevation tool?<BR /> <BR /> Re: the poor resolution when reducing the image in PS, all image editors have multiple resampling methods so you might want to explore those. Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:13:50 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/problems-with-resolution-exporting-to-photoshop-help/m-p/213634#M115851 vistasp 2010-10-09T16:13:50Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/problems-with-resolution-exporting-to-photoshop-help/m-p/213635#M115852 ArchiCAD saves the PDF as a vector drawing. When you open the PDF in Photoshop it will convert the vector image to a bitmap according to the preference setting. When you reduce the image size to 10% you are throwing away 99% of the pixels.<BR /> <BR /> What are you trying to accomplish? Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:26:43 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/problems-with-resolution-exporting-to-photoshop-help/m-p/213635#M115852 Anonymous 2010-10-09T17:26:43Z