When you use the Canvas Size dialog, you enter the new height or width (or both), specify your units, if you are in version 7, check relative or uncheck it, then position your source page with the little diagram at the bottom.
If you have the center clicked in that diagram, and enter the new height and new width, the canvas will increase by the amount you specified using the units you specified.
If your source image has a locked background the increase will be in your chosen background color. If the image is a layer, the increase will be transparent.
If you’re doing the above, tell us how you know that only on two of the four sides that are increasing.
Peace,
Tony
Because only 2 sides become transparent when i do it. By the way, I do it in increments of 1px (with the relative box checked)
Not possible. Either you are not changing both values, or your observations are incorrect. Set up a test to PROVE it to yourself using guides on the document border before resizing.
With short sentences like you have been providing, you are making us really really work to get more information. You won’t find much more help like that, so you’d be better off providing more information. This isn’t a guessing game.
Do you have a layer that might extend past the canvas? You could be enlarging the canvas and not notice it (especially with 1px increase). To delete anything outside the canvas, do a crop around the entire image. After applying that, try the canvas resize again.
Eric,
<golf clap> I never would have thought of a layer that extended beyond the canvas. Well done.
Eric,
Gosh,don’t you "hate it" when people don’t get your "humor."
I "hate it" when I’m one of the people that "don’t get it."
Heh Heh Heh–it’s funny now! 🙂
Patty
select the image (CTRL+A)
Edit>Stroke>Inside and set the number of pixels you want. You can choose an outside stroke but you won’t see it unless you expand the canvas that number of pixels. BTW, you can make the stroke any color you want by using the color picker when the stroke dialogue is open.
But for the stroke to show in the print, the outer size needs to be within the area designated to be printed.
For example, a 4×6 at 300 pixels per inch is 1200×1800 pixels. You can add a 10 pixel black stroke but it needs to be within the 1200×1800 pixels to see it in the print. That would require an inside stroke or inside the 1200×1800. If you want to add it to the outside of the image, the image would now become 1220×1820 and would then need to be reduced to the 1200×1800 for it to show in the print.
Larry Berman
Is there any way to make fancy borders?
Select/All
Edit/Stroke
Can pick color there, foreground color is where it starts. However many pixels gives you the size you want.
Inside uses same size you already have, border "crops" into pic.
If you want border that makes over all size larger, try
Image/Canvas Size. Uses background color. Just add dimensions you want.
Mac
