How To Add Borders Around Images Using Canvas Size In Photoshop
https://www.shutterbuggs.com/ - Often when working with images in Photoshop, you’ll come across certain situations that require additional canvas area outside that of the actual image.
Now, one such situation would be for example, if you were printing your images and you wanted to add a lovely white border around them so then you can actually sign underneath your image. You could do that using canvas size. So, let’s go and actually implement that.
If you go up to your main navigational menu and click on Image and then just scroll down, you’ll find canvas size. Now, what you’ll notice with canvas size is, it will actually give you your current size of your document which is the file size. At the moment, I’ve got a 48.5 megabyte file. Then we have the actual width size, and that’s actually documented in pixels here. But if I was actually to change it to say centimeters, then that will actually change to centimeters.
That will tell you where your current image is at. And then underneath that, we have the new size. Now, the new size is going to be the new size of the entire file, which is determined by the additional canvas that you’re going to be adding to the image that’s already there. So, essentially you have a couple of options. You have basically the pre-designed size that’s here. You can actually add to that by just going and adding, say I want that to be 25 instead of 24 cm in size, you can choose that just by adding to it here.
Or you can choose to check relative. Now, relative is much easier to understand, because it’s actually telling you how much you are adding to your outside edge of your image without having to actually calculate that in your head, based on the existing document size. So, in most cases, I usually leave relative set, and that’s what I’ll actually utilize.
In this example, say I wanted to add an entire white border to the outside edges of my image. What I could do is say, let’s add 1 cm border but in order to add a 1 cm border right the way around, I’ll have to put in 2 cm for the width, and 2 cm for the height.
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