From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Expanding the canvas to accommodate a layer

Expanding the canvas to accommodate a layer - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Expanding the canvas to accommodate a layer

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to expand the canvas to accommodate a new layer and along the way I'll also show you how to change Photoshop's unit of measure. So if I turn off the wing #1 layer here, you can see that our big problem at this point is that we don't have enough room for those wings. We need to add some more height to this image. And the easiest way to pull that off is with the crop tool. So I'll go ahead and turn that layer back on and then I'll zoom out by pressing control, minus, or command, minus on a Mac a couple of times. And then I'll switch to the crop tool which as you may recall has a keyboard shortcut of C. Next, I'll drag up on the top of the crop boundary like so. And incidentally, up here in the options bar, make sure that the Content Aware check box is turned off. If it's turned on, Photoshop will try to add more information up here at the top of the image. We want it to be blank. The setting for Delete Cropped Pixels doesn't really matter…

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