Designers - what dimensions for a paysite tour PSD?
 

I am trying to make my first pay-site tour in photoshop and I am wondering how many pixels high to make it.

I am pretty sure I am going 750 pixels wide.

Many pay-site tours I've seen out there seem to just go on and on, is that the original PSD that goes all that height or is it several stacked up?

How tall should I start with?

how tall psd doesn't really matter as long as you have all page components laid out in there then, once you slice it into html you can repeat say scene blocks with various scenes, thats just a personal preference of course. while doing designs for clients we usually fill up tour page with 2-3 scene blocks and when site goes live it can become really tall.

width wise, 750 is too tiny nowadays imho unless you definitely know your target audience mostly uses 800x600

go 1900 wide, then reduce as needed when the design is done

750 is so 2005, id go 900 or 980

cool, it seemed kinda cramped, but I figured not everybody has a macbook pro. I guess not everybody has a netbook either.

btw you can add/reduce width and height of your existing psd documents, reducing is usually done through cropping to selection (menu: image/crop) and extending dimensions through menu: image/canvas size. that's why above i mentioned that height doesn't really matter

what Vendzilla said is your work-area can be very wide if you going to do some fancy stuff around main content area.. and then select reasonable width area in the center where all content goes (up to 1000px is fine), you'll have plenty of space around not to feel too constraint and it will provide you space to position overall page background pattern or image. I don't recommend scaling up or down whole area - its best to work with real scale without the need of resizing it later on.