From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
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Increasing canvas size - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
Increasing canvas size
- [Narrator] One of the lesser known features, when using the Crop Tool, is it's ability to add additional canvas area around your image. But before we start, I'm going to tap the C to select the Crop Tool, and then I'm going to right-click on the icon for the Crop Tool, or Control-click on Mac, and choose to reset the tool to make sure that we all have the same options. Then, I'll tap Escape to remove the crop marquee, but I still have the Crop Tool. Then, I'm going to drag out a crop in the image area, but you'll notice when I get to the lower right, I'm actually limited by the canvas area, well, I'm limited until I release my cursor and set down the first crop. So, I'm going to set this in the upper left and the lower right, not beyond the canvas to begin with, and then I'll use Command Minus in order to zoom out. Then, in order to add canvas size, I'm going to hold down the Option key here, as I start dragging, and I'll also…
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