Im afraid the canvas size explanation didn't make any sense as to why canvas size important. Why would I need to add the same picture to the larger canvas?....I still don't get why I need a larger canvas size....
Let's say you have a picture. And you want a 5px border around the image and it has to go outside of the image. You'd then expand the canvas size by 5px on all size first in order to accomodate the outside-facing border. Another example I run into is that I need to make an image a certain size ratio. I might be off by 10 or 20 pixels in the ratio. In order to achieve it, I either have to squish or stretch the image via image size or crop off a few pixels using canvas. My example was just one example. There's myriad of reasons for each. I just wanted to showcase the differences.
Look at it like this, the canvas size is your page in your scrap book, let’s say this is A4, your image size is say A3, you have a couple of choices as to not have any of your page showing after you have stuck your photo in to the scrap book. 1, you could cut the excess page away that you have showing still, or 2, you could put another photo the same size as the first ie:A3 besides the first image that way you would not have any page of your scrap book showing as it’s all Used up from corner to corner by the images that you have stuck in to it. If you open a photo with photoshop it will automatically create the same size canvas as the image, but if you go to photoshop and creat a blank canvas then then you bring in your image it probley won’t be the same size as the canvas, Hope you can work out what I mean from this I often print photos at 7x5”, I’m on the Uk, but if I don’t have any paper that size then I will just create a canvas to the size of the paper I do have, say A4, I can move the photo anywhere on the canvas then print, that way I don’t get all the silly messages saying paper does not match image size and printer does not match and so on. Good luck
This was helpful thank you. My take away is: create your art work in the highest resolution / image size as possible. And then only ever re-size down, via the image sizing options.
Im afraid the canvas size explanation didn't make any sense as to why canvas size important. Why would I need to add the same picture to the larger canvas?....I still don't get why I need a larger canvas size....
Let's say you have a picture. And you want a 5px border around the image and it has to go outside of the image. You'd then expand the canvas size by 5px on all size first in order to accomodate the outside-facing border.
Another example I run into is that I need to make an image a certain size ratio. I might be off by 10 or 20 pixels in the ratio. In order to achieve it, I either have to squish or stretch the image via image size or crop off a few pixels using canvas.
My example was just one example. There's myriad of reasons for each. I just wanted to showcase the differences.
Look at it like this, the canvas size is your page in your scrap book, let’s say this is A4, your image size is say A3, you have a couple of choices as to not have any of your page showing after you have stuck your photo in to the scrap book.
1, you could cut the excess page away that you have showing still, or
2, you could put another photo the same size as the first ie:A3 besides the first image that way you would not have any page of your scrap book showing as it’s all
Used up from corner to corner by the images that you have stuck in to it.
If you open a photo with photoshop it will automatically create the same size canvas as the image, but if you go to photoshop and creat a blank canvas then then you bring in your image it probley won’t be the same size as the canvas,
Hope you can work out what I mean from this
I often print photos at 7x5”, I’m on the Uk, but if I don’t have any paper that size then I will just create a canvas to the size of the paper I do have, say A4, I can move the photo anywhere on the canvas then print, that way I don’t get all the silly messages saying paper does not match image size and printer does not match and so on.
Good luck
This was helpful thank you. My take away is: create your art work in the highest resolution / image size as possible. And then only ever re-size down, via the image sizing options.