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Cropping to a specific size and resolution using Canvas Size

Cropping to a specific size and resolution using Canvas Size - Photoshop Tutorial

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Cropping to a specific size and resolution using Canvas Size

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In the last movie, you saw me trying to size this image to 8 x 10 and running into the problem of the image's aspect ratio. This image does not actually scale to a perfect 8 x 10 because it's too wide. This is a 3:2 aspect ratio, so it doesn't fit into a perfect 8 x 10 inch size. If I go here and set my Width to 10, my Height drops to 6.6. If you are building a custom mat, that's fine, but if you're trying to fit an image to a prebuilt frame or a prebuilt matte size, then you may want to go to a very, very specific size, and that might mean that you have to crop your image. That's the only way we are going to get this image to fit in the size that we want is to drop some off the edges. There are a lot of different ways of doing this. The Crop tool is probably the one that immediately comes to your mind, but in this movie I want to show you a different way. Before we get to cropping though, I want to set my size properly. If I have my image set to 10 x 6, that's going to complicate…

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