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September 29, 2026
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Auto-fit placed images to canvas

  • September 29, 2026
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When I place a photo into an existing Photoshop document, I’d like Photoshop to offer an option to automatically resize and center it to fit the canvas while preserving its proportions.

It would be useful to have two choices: Fit, which shows the whole photo, and Fill, which covers the canvas and crops the image only if needed. This would save me from manually resizing every image with Free Transform, especially when working with portrait, landscape, or differently sized images.

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    Trevor.Dennis
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    September 29, 2026

    I’m guessing that you know File > Place Embedded already centres the introduced image, and sizes it if it is bigger than the document window? It also retains the aspect ratio of the introduced image if it is larger than the document window. What it won’t do is stretch the introduced image, but I’m sure you realize why that could risk pixelation.