Adobe 65045315 - Photoshop Elements Use Manual page 155

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10
Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos
Increasing the size of the canvas makes room for a colored border.
In the Edit workspace, choose Image > Resize > Canvas Size.
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2 Do one of the following:
• In the Width and Height boxes, enter the full dimensions of the new canvas. Choose the units of measurement you
want from the adjacent menus. The Columns option measures width in terms of the columns specified in the Units
& Rulers preferences, and only applies to size reductions, not size increases.
• Select Relative, and enter the amount by which you want to increase or decrease the size of the canvas. Enter a
negative number to decrease the size of the canvas. Use this option if you want to increase the canvas by a specified
amount, such as 2 inches on each side.
For Anchor, click an arrow to indicate where to position the existing image on the new canvas.
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To change the color of the added canvas, choose an option from the Canvas Extension Color menu and click OK.
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Straighten an image
You can use the Straighten tool to realign an image vertically or horizontally. This tool also resizes or crops the canvas
to accommodate straightening the image.
Manually straighten an image
1 In the Edit workspace, select the Straighten tool
2 To straighten all of the layers in the image, select Rotate All Layers, and then choose an option from the Canvas
Options menu (this menu is available only if you select Rotate All Layers):
Grow Or Shrink Canvas To Fit
fall outside of the current canvas. The straightened image will contain areas of blank background, but no pixels are
clipped.
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Resizes the canvas to fit the rotated image. Straightening causes corners of the image to
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