Scaling percentage images inside InDesign

hi,
got an image with a size of 544 x 408 px meassured in photoshop.
Safe it as layered .psd at 264dpi.
Bring it to InDesign where I create articles for a 1024 x 768 px folio.
At 100% the image meassures 101.489 x 96.233 px.
Think it's a resolution issue but if so does this means pixels in photoshop aren't equal to pixels in InDesign ?
Please, someone who can explain this to me ??
thanx in advance,
Herman

You can't necessarily trust the scaling percentage in InDesign. You can select a 200x200 image, choose 200% from the Scaling setting, and the Scaling setting shows 100% for the 400x400 image (unless a different preference setting is selected, but let's not go there).
Please read the "Background information" in this article:
http://blogs.adobe.com/indesigndocs/2012/03/guidelines-for-creating-folios-for-ipad-3.html
Any non-interactive content that appears on your page is resampled when the article is created. If your folio is 1024×768, all the non-interactive content on a page is compressed to a 1024×768 72-ppi image using the article’s image format setting: PNG, JPG, or PDF. (In v23 and later, the PDF image format uses an effective 108-ppi to improve the appearance of SD folios on HD devices.)
If your folio is 2048×1536, a 2048×1536 72-ppi background image is rendered for each page. (I’m oversimplifying this a bit. What I said is true of JPG/PNG folios, but it’s more complicated for PDF folios. A JPG or PNG-format article is rasterized at 72 ppi and is the dimension of the folio. However, PDF-format articles for 1024 and 2048 folios have the same dimension, but they have different resolution values for the SD and HD folios.)
Your PSD images become part of those background images. If you're worried about it, use a huge PSD image and let InDesign/DPS do the downsampling.

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