My friend sent me several pictures. I looked at them in Windows Explorer and they were 100k - 125k in size.

I started PS CS3 and started a New file. I purposly set the size as Paper (81/2 x 11)to see how PS would adjust to these small input pictures.

I then opened one of the pictures and PS opened it up at 3.556 inches x 2.667 inches (180 PPI), which I am assuming is the dimisions of the original picture.

Ok, nothing I guess I can do about that but:

1. Am I stuck at creating a 3.556 x 2.667 pictues consisting of several of the inputs (as described above) and reducing the size of the inputs even more so that several of them fit on to a 3.556 x 2667 canvas?

2. I have heard 300ppi as being a desired PPI for printing on inkjets. Is the 180 ppi I am stuck with going to be a poor picture (even at 3.556 x 2.667 size print?

3. How can I create a border that will be larger than 3.556 x 2.667 (which will make the overall original 3.556 x 2.667 picture appear to be bigger?

Thanks in advance,

Bob

You are not stuck with 180 pp1. Just change the resolution to 300 with resampling OFF in Image>Image Size, and proceed from there. You'll see that your images suddenly gets "smaller", so resizing may not be necessary. Of course they didn't really get smaller in terms of pixels, but until you are ready to print it's pixels you are dealing with.

You can make such a border in several ways. Here's one: Set the Background color to the border color you want. Increase the canvas size in Image>Canvas Size with Background color selected as the extension color.