Your new image handling in 5.3 introduced a new bug (at least I think it's what's causing it).
If you resize your your project dimensions the images stays the same size relative to the project size until you open the properties windows for the image, then suddenly the image resizes to it's true pixel size.
Very annoying behavior.
Image size bug.
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