Canvas Size in Photoshop

I am creating credits in photoshop. I am in a DVCPRO HD 720p sequence.
My photoshop canvas is 1280x4067 because they are rolling credits. When I export as a TIFF (to preserve transparency), and import it into FCP, the image is long and skinny so that it will fit into the viewer, but the image is at 100 scale. What gives? If I've got it at 1280 across in Photoshop, why is FCP displaying it as a fraction of that?
Should I increase my canvas to an ungodly amount? There's got to be something I'm doing wrong.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Cameron

Well, sorry, I feel silly. The viewer was at 13%. Didn't catch it.
Cameron

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Problems with canvas size in Photoshop.

I just upgraded to CS Cloud. When I open images in Photoshop the canvas appears to be very large. So I tried cropping the image. When I go to the Image Size or Canvas Size the right size appears. However, on screen there is all of this white space that shows up. It's driving me crazy. Has anyone had this problem and know how to correct it?

Or you have color for the document window area outside the document bounds set to white.
Right click just outside the picture and see if selecting one the grays like light gray, makes a difference.

Photoshop CS6 1 File with Muliple Canvas Sizes

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on 1 file have Muliple Canvas sizes
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This forum is actually about the Cloud, not about using individual programs
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You will be able to select a forum for the specific Adobe product(s) you use
Click the "down arrow" symbol on the right (where it says ALL FORUMS) to open the drop down list and scroll
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Adobe Photoshop cs4-What Does Canvas Size Really Mean?

What are we actually looking at when we place a picture on a canvas?
For example, if I have a canvas of a width of 800 and a height of 1500 it appears on the screen to my eyes to be about 3 inches by 7 inches.
Then let's say I add the headline: Risk takers of all kinds think the same.
This headline will possibly take three rows to complete itself.
But then I can make the same canvas fit the screen.
Now the entire headline will fit on one row.
What confuses me is which image of the canvas is a "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" in terms of how it will actually look on my webpage?
In other words I guess my real question is how do I start with a canvas size that actually reflects my webpage or a defineable portion of it.
Thank You,
Jerry

You'll have to forgive me but at times I'm not really sure what I'm talking about or doing.
But an image or other content is built on layer canvas' I think?
It gets all confusing because you may or may not fill a canvas with an image?
Assuming you do fill a canvas with an image then I think the pixel dimensions and resolution will be directly tied to the canvas size?
But I don't think any of that is my real point.
I'll try to speak to my confusion using words other than those I first used.
For example let's say you are making a squeeze page for your website.
So you start with a headline that reads as follows: INTERNET MARKETER STICKS TO HIS GUM!
Let's say those words are in large print.
On my computer and I am using a small screen, if I create a canvas of a width =800 and height=1500 it occupies a space of
of about 3" by 7".
Now (and this part is now becoming like what I wrote above) those six words in large letters will occupy three to four rows on my computer.
So in my mind I am thinking that when I eventually publish that page that the headline should occupy four lines. Make sense?
But if I click the "fit to screen" Photoshop button, the canvas becomes larger on my screen and the entire headline will now fit on a "single" line.
So now in my mind I am thinking that when I eventually publish that page that the headline should occupy one line. See my problem?
I guess my point is am I looking at WYSIWYG in the first, second or neither case?
In other words what is the meaning of what I see when I look at a canvas?
Thank you for your help.
Here's one more attempt.
Let's say you spend 12 hours designing a canvas in Photoshop that you thought would properly fill your webpage, and then you discover to your dismay that instead of your headline fitting properly only 37% of it does. This would make you very unhappy and perhaps others.
So what I'm trying to understand as a beginner is how does what I see on a canvas in Photoshop cs4 relate to a webpage.

Photoshop cs6 batching process change the canvas size

I am looking to change some images from 320x? to 320x320 without distoration. The way to do that would be to change the canvas size to 320x? to 320x320 and have the product stay in the middle. Can CS6 do that in a batch process?

I am sorry is that a yes or a no. I do not own this version of Photoshop but would upgrade if I can do this as I have several images to reformat.
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I frequently want to crop an image to a new aspect ratio, equivalent to the Canvas Size feature of desktop Photoshop.
Does PS Touch allow precise canvas size adjustment?
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Yes; when you go to use the Crop command, there should be a little arrow pointing upward on the left hand side of the crop options. Tap it to specify an exact width, height, or X and Y coordinates.
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I am having what appears to be this same issue.    I am using PS CC.
hello @ c.pfaffenbichler
I resized my image in image> image size.
Details:
I am not a ps expert but woefully self taught. However through much trial and error I have in my experience over the years, achieved some comfortability with the image size dialog box as well as the canvas size dialog box. SOME comfortability lol. That is, I feel that I understand what is going on most of the time and when flummoxed have studied adobe literature or read hundreds of posts here and elsewhere to gain additional knowledge which many times resolves the issue. I like digging and finding the answers.
In this case, my digging is done dug a giant hole and I am exhausted and found nuthin'.
I feel like I am going nutso.
In my mind,
1. There is the image I am working on
2. There is the canvas the image is sitting on
My expectation and previous experience is that I can change the Image size by going to Image > image size and this change does not affect the canvas size.
My expectation and previous experience is that I can go to Image >canvas size and change the canvas size and this does not affect the image size.
I could also use the Transform to resize the image which also, would not in my expectation, change the canvas size.
In the beginning of my workflow on this particular collage I did not have this issue, so that leads me to believe I did or am doing something to cause this rather than it being some kind of bug.    But what do I know.
I thank you in advance for your assistance.

Photoshop keeps altering the canvas size for very exact measurements

I need exact measurements for the canvas size which has to be 704.55 mm in width. I noticed that when i create a new document and insert this size for the document width it changes to 704.51mm if I check out the canvas size under Image > Canvas size. Any explanation as to why it alters the canvas size for very exact dimensions?
Thank you

An image cannot consist of fractions of a pixel. Imagine you have an image that has a resolution of 3 ppi. That's 3 pixels within an inch of image. Now say you want a canvas size of 0.5 inches. That would mean an image consisting of 1.5 pixels, which is impossible. The image must be rounded to the nearest size that accomodates a whole pixel. You can either just decide that that's good enough (usually it is), or use a resolution so that your canvas size has more pixels that can be divided up into your desired size, then maybe you may be able to fit your resolution exactly into your canvas size.

A script to increase the minimum canvas size? (Like Fit Image, but with just my canvas)

For starters to be clear, I'm looking to manipulate canvas size. Not image size.
I want to create a script to automatically increase the width and height of my canvas in Photoshop to a specific size when necessary. I only want this to happen if my canvas is less than that specified size. For example: Let's say my canvas size is 300x250. I want the canvas to be at LEAST 600x600. If I run my action it will increase the canvas size to 600x600 for me. If I run this same script on an image where the canvas size is already 700x700, it won't do anything at all to it because both the width and height are equal to or greater than my target size.
It would also need to work with the height and width on an individual basis. If my image is 400x800, the action would increase my width from 400 to 600, but it would leave the height of 800 alone. So the final canvas size will end up being 600x800.
It's kind of like the "Fit Image" option in Photoshop, but I only want to manipulate my canvas size, NOT my image size.

It is possible.
But if you hope that the dialog remembers the last settings that would require storing those values (which could be done with a txt-file at some pre-defined location), but it would make the Script a bit more complicated.
// resize canvas in either direction if it is below a defined minimum;
// 2011; use it at your own risk;
#target photoshop
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// filter for checking if entry is numeric, thanks to xbytor;
numberKeystrokeFilter = function() {
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dlg.hor = dlg.add("edittext", [14,15,88,35], "600", {multiline:false});
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dlg.horText = dlg.add("statictext", [93,15,118,35], "px", {multiline:false});
dlg.ver = dlg.add("edittext", [129,15,210,35], "600", {multiline:false});
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dlg.hor.active = true;
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dlg.buildBtn = dlg.add("button", [13,45,118,68], "OK", {name:"ok"});
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Smart Objects...changing canvas size problem

When changing the canvas size of a smart object, the layer on the original document will distort visually since it doesn't update the size of the smart object.
Is there a solution to this, or an easy way to quickly update every instance of the smart object on the original doc?
To clarify: I know that you can change the dimensions of the smart object on the original doc and it'll fix it, my question is if there's a way to automatically have that happen and have the original doc smart objects respect your canvas size changes on the smart object doc.
Reproduce:
1) Draw a circle
2) Turn it into a smart object
3) Go into the smart object, change the canvas size by increasing the height of the canvas. The smart object should now have a circle with blank space above/below it.
4) Save the smart object
5) The circle on the original document will now be squished.
I'm using Photoshop CS5

xg3 wrote:
When changing the canvas size of a smart object, the layer on the original document will distort visually since it doesn't update the size of the smart object.
When you change the canvas size of a document the only layer that will change is a backgroung layer for it does not support transparency so its pixels will be changed. However a background layer should not distort it may be cropped and have canvas added in which case the color of the empty canvas can be set in the canvas size dialog. All other layer including Smart Object layer should not chang at all. Layer positioning in relationship to the canvas and the new canvas size is set during the canvas size change. Layers can be any size and have any aspect ratio. Their sizes can be smaller, the same or larger then the canvas size. Even layer that can fit within a documents canvas size may be positioned so that all, some or none of the layer is over the documents canvas.
I do not know what you mean when you write the original document chages. A smart object layer has an embedded copy of an object. The original document is not touched. You can open the smart object layer embedded object in Photoshop by double clicking on the smart object icon in the layers palette smart object layer and change it size. And distort it f you wish. When you use Photoshop save. Photoshop will change the enbedded object in the smart object layer. You can also leave the embedded smaro object as is and change the smart object layer size and distort it using transform on the smart object layer itsself.
I think what you did was to open the smart object in photoshop change its canvas saze then save it. The updated smart object is realy round but you dont see that it is becaue it is being transformec ti fit the original documents canvas. If you do a Canvas size on the codument you will see the original docyment canvas size is not change and thet your now squaching a now changed taller object into a shorter canvas. With each Smart Obkect layer there is as associated transform.
No I was wrong I just tried that and it looks like the transform was not the problem as yo can see I dir a Ctrl+T so you can see the size of the smart object layer is now biger then the original document and is positioned centered canvas is still 300x300 white area in image

Large Canvas Sizes

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I can only export it as a .EMF file as the other options cause RootsMagic to crash.
I can't use Adobe Illustrator, Design, or PDF (which are the preferred formats of the local printers) because their largest canvas size is 227". I tried importing partial EMF files, however, their print size was too small and I couldn't scale the objects without blowing the canvas limit again. Besides, genrating the tree and printing it in pieces, seems to alter the flow of the generations.
Adobe Photoshop has a larger canvas size, I think, however, it does not import EMF files.
I have most of the Adobe products, but I can't seem to find a way to produce something for local commercial printing. Muliple PDF pages, scaled to the same size, appears to be an alternative but I can't seem to find a way to produce this. RootsMagic does not have a lot of alternatives.
My options seem to be:
a) find some way to breadown the resulting object intio mutiple canvas sizes
b) buy my own printer/plotter.
To make matters worse, the chart is growing daily as I receive added updates.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Ian,
Realistically, the folks who come to mind who can output anything 33-feet long are the folks who would make large banner or perhaps some billboard and vehicle graphics stuff, and resolution is probably not going to be satisfactory. Also note, that a Dead Seas Scroll is awkward to handle unless you have a wall to unroll and tack it to. Also note that the graphic file size could exceed 1 GB.
>buy my own printer/plotter.
Forget about purchasing a printer that can handle this unless multiple pieces are acceptable. For example, an Epson 13" printer (figure spending several hundred dollars) can handle roll-cut printouts, but only up to 44" wide. But if you have to print out more than one or two sets, you're going to be spending a lot of time with this; and a lot of money on ink (and paper if you choose something better than the rather miserable, non-stable 28 lb or 32 lb inkjet bond). But then again, if you have a production house or printer output this for you, you may be spending $10-$12 or more per square foot.
>I can only export it as a .EMF file as the other options cause RootsMagic to crash.
Get tech support to figure it out, so that if multiple pages is a reasonable option, you can chop the art down and place each segment on a page of a page layout document, such as InDesign or QuarkXPress, if you can save to a compatible format, such as .pdf, .eps .tif or .jpg.
Neil

Cropping + Changing Canvas Size

Hello,
I have a problem (because I'm a beginner in Photoshop), and it's that when I crop and image and try to change the canvas size - I change the size because I'm using another type of paper - (and anchor the image to the top left), the image looks like the way it was before the crop. Is there another way to do this? Am I doing it wrong?
Thanks

Ok, so, what I did:
New File 4x6 (in Custom)
Drag & Drop the picture to Photoshop (making a new layer in top of layer 0 or background)
Select the crop tool and arrange the picture like you want it to be seen after cropping it
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Because I want it to be printed in 4x6 paper (so it can be correctly printed) I go to Image>Canvas Size and set the width and height of the canvas (in this case 4x6)
When I do this, the canvas becomes large again, but the picture looks like the way it was before the crop.
My question is if I'm doing this wrong, or if there's another way. Hope you understand. I added the pictures in order, just in case.

Increasing canvas size and re-clipping (intentionally)

Hi,
So I bolluxed up a little bit while creating my first full-bleed print piece. I used Ps to edit the image, Ai to add some stuff, and ignored Id completely for the printer. Now I have a perfect 8.5 x 11 image that I want to print all the way to the edges without scaling; I left white bleeds 1.8" but apparently that won't suffice.
I'm trying to go back into photoshop and increase the canvas size (8.75 x 11.25 to include bleeds), and with it, extend the image that was originally clipped when I trimmed the document from a vertical picture (12 x 16 or whatever) to fit the standard letter paper size. When I do that, I get only white areas around the canvas.
Can anyone provide a solution to create full-color bleeds the way they should have been done originally? I have tried changing the canvas size and re-placing another layer of the image behind the existing one (with the hopes that it would clip automatically), but it didn't work. At this point, should I worry about bringing anything into InDesign?
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The Nish Adeel,
> i wants to increase my fla canvas size from all sides...
when we
> increase the size of a file it increases from right and
bottom , i
> want to make it from all four sides like photoshop ...
is there any
> way to do this.
There is a way to do this; unfortunately, it's not an
automatic feature
like in Photoshop. The approach you'll need to take is to
update the
document dimensions (basically, the canvas size) as desired,
then use the
Edit Multiple Frames button on the lower left of the Timeline
panel to
manually move all assets on the main timeline. To do this,
you'll have to
make sure all layers are unlocked. To do this quickly, click
the
Lock/Unlock All Layers button at the top, between the eye and
the square
buttons, until you see that all locks have been removed (one
or two clicks
will do it). In the Modify Onion Markers button next to the
Edit Multiple
Frames button, choose Onion All. Select Edit > Select All,
then use the
arrow buttons to move your assets.
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Max. J.peg file size in photoshop ps

What is the maximum file size I can work with in photoshop ps?

Hi,
If you are talking about the images added to a project (or created from image),
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If you exceed the pixel limit the image will be downscaled to the maximum in the settings.
It also depends on which device you are using.
The amount of layers is connected to this too. If the canvas size is large you
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Difference in file size in photoshop and bridge

when I save an image in photoshop (file size 26mb) it shows as a 70.7 mb in bridge or window explorer. Why?

fotonut1 wrote:
The 26 mb number is found when I go to image size (alt cntrl I
Lets take a look at the Image Sise Dialog. Nothing in it indicates anything about any file size. One number in it I have never been able t figure exactly how Adobe come up with and the is Pixel Dimensions Number all others I understand.
Below is a screen capture of the dialog shows 91.4M ???
3264x4896 is the 3:2 my Cannon 1D4 16MP the first calculator is
3264x4896=15980544 I can by the camera sensor is 16.1 MP but only delivers an image 15.98MP
Its 16bit color so each pixel has 3 16bit values for RGB 6 bytes per pixel
15980544x6=95883264 bytes 95.9M not 91.4M
If 91.4 is in hex M 1028 is 1K so 1M 1028000 bytes is 1M
91.4x1028000=93959200 still short of the 95883264 bytes required so I do not how Adobe come up with the 91.4M #
Any way 3264x4896 is canvas size. Has nothing to to with file size.
Photoshop also supports layers and layers can be canvas size or larger then canvas size as well as smaller then canvas.
Additionally layers can contain embedded object and object could contain a layer file like a placed PSD image.
The center section Document Size is the documents Print here you see the document currentle has a 240DPI resolution
3264pixel width / 240 dpi = 13.6"
4896pixel height / 240 dpi = 20.4"
The bottom section is the control section. With resample NOT checked the top can not be changed Pixel Dimensions will not be changed nor would File size. And all three values in print size are linked. You change one value and Photoshop will chage the other two for you. With resample NOT checked the other controls are not settable. Pixel Dimensions are not change so no interpolation and no aspect ratio change.
With Resample checked Constrain Proportions will link width and height to preserv the current aspect ratio and not distort the image.
When you save a document file format is very important layered flat compression all play a roll. It very hard to even guess what the file size will be.

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