Canvas Size Issue

[Armadilliciouds]

I just got CS5.1 at my job. This must be a preference, but when I adjust the Canvas size, it will constrain the image, rather than cropping the canvas. The Anchor in the Canvas Size menu appears outlined (highlighted?) which indicates that this is something in preferences that I can adjust.

 

[agentmoeller]

Don't think Canvas Size will crop. You will have to crop first, than adjust canvas size.

No?

 

[mimetalk]

I'm pretty sure that canvas is supposed to crop. In fact, every time I adjust the canvas size, when I'm making it smaller, it asks "The new canvas size is smaller than the current canvas size; some clipping will occur." Image size shrinks the image like you're describing, but I don't know why canvas size would. Did you make sure that you're actually adjusting the canvas size and not the image size, because the image size will just... re-size the image.