Titles Produced in Photoshop R Distorted

I am creating my own titles in Photoshop at 720X480 image size. Bringing them into Premiere Elements they are distorted. Please help.

Kippi,
I love the "easy ones!"
As I do most of my major Titles in PS, this is something that I deal with every day.
Similar crops up in the Encore forum, with Menus created in PS and then used in the DVD. The PAR bites a lot of folk. Think that it was with CS, that PAR was added to PS. Because of the display, PS will pop up a warning window, should you Open the Title (or a Menu) back in PS. I leave this on (can be turned off), just so that I am always reminded to check my PAR.
I also use the New Image Preset for my Project, say the NTSC 720 x 480 standard 4:3, PAR = 0.9 w/ Guides, to do my Titles, and my Menus. That gets me started and shows the Action Safe Area plus the Title Safe Area of the screen.
Good luck, and happy editing,
Hunt

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