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I received an email from students asking to go over adding canvas to the image for final presentation.  Here is a quick recap of what to do.




1) Decide on the size of the print.  8x10, 11x14, 4x6 . . .




2) Crop you image or leave it the way it was shot




3) Resize the image to fit your paper size.  Now you must consider a couple of things.  One, how much white space do you want around the image.  The second do you want the white space around the image to even or have weighted bottom?




  3A) You can do this two ways.  Put in the dimensions and dpi (usually 300 dpi, but you can get away with 150 dpi if the image will be small) and crop the image. The other way is to reduce the size through the top menu image>image size.




3B) Now that you have resized the image to fit on your paper, add canvas.  Image>canvas size.  Type in the size of the paper you are printing on and let Photoshop add white space (or any color you desire) all around the image.  If you want a weighted bottom, then you need to do some math and add canvas one side at time.




Here is an example:





I want to print this at my local CVS.  So my final output will be 4x6.

First, change the size of image to fit the 4x6 format.  Go to Image>Image Size.

I want to have one inch border around the whole image.  So I am typing 5 on the height and it will automatically change the height.  You may need to check resample image to downsize your image.

Now not to throw you off, but you can also use the crop tool to do the same job.  Go to the crop tool and look at the options at the top of the interface.  Type in 3x5 and 300 dpi

Now crop the image the way you want it.  The gray parts on the side are areas that will be cropped out of the picture.

After the crop or after you resize the image, then go to the menu again and this time it will image>canvas size

Now to make it 4x6 with just even border all way around- not a weighted bottom- type 4x6 in the height and width and choose your color for the background extension.

Now canvas is added so you can add text to the border and not on the image.