Resize a layer and extract useful part of it?

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Anton-kameraman
Dec 14, 2006
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How to delete the unused part of a layer that exeeds the canvas size?
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Phosphor
Dec 14, 2006
Select All (CTRL + A) and then go to Image—>Crop

Just be sure that you’ll never have any need for the parts off-canvas that you get rid of, because after you save and close the image you won’t be able to get them back.
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Anton-kameraman
Dec 14, 2006
Thanx a lot, Phos!!! It’s that simple!!! 🙂
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Phosphor
Dec 14, 2006
Sure it’s that simple…once you know how!

I hear speaking Swahili is easy, too…once you know how!

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Cheers.
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Bernie
Dec 14, 2006
Be aware that Phos’ method deleted all the big data from all the layers. If you just want to delete it from one layer and keep it on the otehr layers, do the following:

1) Select all
2) New Layer via Copy
3) Delete the original layer
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Phosphor
Dec 14, 2006
Good point, good catch and good clarification, CyNo.

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Anton-kameraman
Dec 15, 2006
I see. This is u duplicate selected area of a layer, and then delete the source. Thank u Nomad!

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