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Regardless what resolution you use in Photoshop, it will always have a square aspect ratio (1.00). This is because the screen you use has a 1.0 aspect ratio (640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, etc.). The only way to have the PAR a/r would be to have the image displayed on the PAR monitor (won't do). I don't know Photoshop well enough to know if it allows you to specify the aspect ratio of an image. I guess not as Photoshop wasn't meant to do video. Even that would be weird as if it tried to keep the aspect ratio right in both scenarios (in your VGA while you work and on the PAR once you save) it would be a tricky thing. Because the PAR is "wider" than you VGA, it would have to scale up the image horizontally introducing artifacts in the process. What you can do is work with a larger buffer, say 1024×660 and when you're done, shrink it down to 752×480 (make sure the "keep aspect ratio" is off). That way you are working with a 1.0 a/r and when you scale down to 752×480, you will be reducing the aspect ratio to match the PAR's.