LEVEL: Intermediate
COMPATIBILITY: Requires Photoshop 7 or higher
There are many awesome layer styles available over the internet. The majority of these styles are created for 72 ppi (pixels per inch) documents. There are also a few styles created for 300 ppi documents. What can you do if you want to use these styles but your Photoshop document has a different resolution? The styles will appear upscaled or downscaled. This tutorial will show you how to correct the problem with a simple calculation.
In this example I created a new document at 300 ppi. I added a text layer and applied the beautiful (& free) Baltic Sea Glass style from Shellyn Long. This style was originally created on a 72 ppi document. As you can see in the example to the left, the style details have been upscaled considerably in my 300ppi document.
In order to iron out this issue and optimize all style details, I need to rescale the style settings by a certain factor (x). To find the value of this factor I have to do this simple calculation:
x = (style resolution) / (document resolution) * 100
In my example this factor is 72 / 300 * 100 = 24. Hence I have to rescale this style's settings down to 24%. Here is how to do it:
Choose Layer > Layer Style > Scale Effects from the main menu, or right-click the "fx" button in the layers panel and choose "Scale Effects".
Enter "24" in the scale field and hit OK.
That's it.
Now the style details show up perfectly on my 300 ppi document.
Similarly, if the original style was created on a 300 ppi document but you are working on a 72 ppi document then you need to upscale the style by 417% (300 / 72 * 100):
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