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what you see can be what you get if you go to view> actual pixel or print view


if you have a 100 dpi image and convert it to 150 dpi you will get a 1.5 x magnification because for every inch adobe will calculate an extra 50 pixels based on the colours around those pixels making it a softer image hard lines will begin to get blurred.


Under default screen view it is based on your monitors pixels you really need to look at actual pixels or print pixels you will see it will enlarge on your screen. I am not sure if cs2 will auto expand your canvas to fit the new dpi or if it will crop it or worse distort it.


so before you send it to print I highly recommend looking at your image through the different views. screens will not show much difference between 72 dpi and 500 dpi in quality to your eye because standard monitors are not capable of seeing beyond that. It is easy to downgrade dpi with more success than it is to increase dpi. This is why you should start with the end product dpi rather than changing it half way through. admittedly a jump from 100 to 150 dpi wont be effected as much as jumping from 72 dpi to 300. but as you say printing on a canvas which will bleed every pixel slightly anyway dont just assume because it looks ok on your screen it will look ok in print.


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