Photoshop Resolution Question

[Yumil1988]

This seems like a silly thing for me to be asking considering how long I've been using this program, but I guess I never really thought about it until now. Basically, is there is a way to find out the resolution of a particular layer/image in the document?

For example, if I scan an image at 600dpi and then move it to Photoshop at the same resolution and then resize the image - make it larger - how can I tell what the resolution of that particular image is after I resize it?

I'm imagining this as some window I don't have open. I work in CorelDRAW all day long at work, and the resolution of images is shown at the bottom of the page while they are selected. I'm not seeing anything like that in Photoshop, now that I'm looking for it.

[Symptoms0fMercy]

In CS3 i believe you have to go to the 'Image' pull-down menu and hit 'Image Size...' OR hit Ctrl+Alt+I

[sheep2001]

if your canvas is 600dpi - and you pull in a 600 dpi image as one of the layers and stretch it, the image will still be 600dpi, but may become grainy/pixelated.  It's always better to scan at a higher resolution than to stretch by any great amount.  The end result will always display the DPI of the actual canvas, not the layers you have imported.  This is why we can't work with low quality scans, as minimum dpi requirement for the overall image for the site is 300. 

So even if you find a lovely clean 96dpi logo, once it's stretched to sit nicely in your final cover, photoshop will report the overall image as 300, but your lovely clean logo will suddenly seem grainy.

Also If all the parts of your image are 300 dpi, it's best to have your canvas as 300, rather than stretch them out to fit say a 600 canvas, and then resize back down for the 300dpi for the site.

I always scan my raw image at 600, and work in a final canvas of 300 for the site.