Using the Crop Tool to Add More Canvas Area
I know the heading at left doesn’t make much sense—using the Crop tool to add more canvas area? How can the Crop tool (which is designed to crop photos to a smaller size) actually make the canvas area (white space) around your photo larger? That’s what I’m going to show you.
Step One. | Open the image that you want to give additional blank canvas area. Press the letter “d” to set your Background color to its default color of white.
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Step Two. | Press Command-minus (PC: Control-minus) to zoom out a bit (so your image doesn’t take up your whole screen), and then press ... |
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