photoshop printing

Hi all, 

and thanks to those who responded regarding printing and upgrading. I have
been using Aldus photostyler for a few years (now defunct) and that is/was
a great program. Sometimes use PSP (4.01 and 5.0 beta) and in all these
programs I have had the facility of scaling the print size, rather than the
image size.

For example, if I have an image which in reality is, say, 5 by 4 inches and
600dpi, and I want to print it A4 (say 10 by 8inches) I have two choices. I
can resample the image itself to 10 by 8 or I can scale the printing to 10
by 8. If the former is my only option, then I am going to be stuck with a
massive file, as the original may well be 25Mb or so and after resampling
could well be 80Mb plus!

>From the feedback so far, it seems as though you are saying that the former
is the only option in Photoshop - am I right? If so, that is a serious
disadvantage with the program.

I am a photographer as well as web page man, and my main concern with image
manipulation is with digital photography, albeit film-based in the first
instance. A standard 35mm transparency scanned in a typical film scanner
produces a file of around 40Mb - but it is only 1.5 inches by 1 inch in
'actual', printed, size.  Does using photoshop mean that if I want an A4
print I must make the image    the 'right' size in the first place? If so
we are talking in the region of hundreds of megabytes, surely.

Please could someone clarify this for me?

Many thanks,

regards
BOB (McClelland)
Cornwall ENGLAND
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