Canvas Size: It's getting the best of me...

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January 12, 2025
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Hi all,

First time posting, but I'm frustrating myself beyond belief and it seems like I'm missing something simple. I'll start off by explaining what I'm trying to do.

I'm currently working on some overlays for photographs. Long story short, I use them for spotmyphotos which allows me to share photos immediately as I take them and it also applies the overlay I've created. Because I will be taking photos both vertical and horizontal I need to create 2 overlays. This is my horizontal overlay.

My attempt is to make this file vertical without creating another overlay. I'm trying to adjust my canvas size to 6x9 inches.

When I click "ok" my canvas does not change. I actually can't tell it made a vertical canvas until I click on the "crop" tool. Do I have something "checked" in a box that isn't allowing me to see the canvas size change without clicking on the crop tool?

When I click on the crop tool, it does show me the canvas changed to vertical, but this is all I see.

When I hit "enter" it goes back to this.

I watched multiple videos on expanding the canvas and it works so easy in videos, but I'm becoming frustrated with this simple task. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Do I need to be clicked on a certain layer when I try to do this?

I appreciate any help on this.

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LAMY2017

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A favor, Alfonso - back up a step.

Is the original Landscape 6x9?

Is the Overlay a standalone, transparent document meant to be Placed (File>Place...) into another document?

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edited to add: I tried to perfom the steps. I could have done something different than you did -- but I was able to change a 6x9 emptyLandscape document to a 6x9 Portrait document.

Larry

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Alfonso RAuthor

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The original canvas size is 1800px x 1200px.

The overlay is a standalone and it is a document meant to be uploaded to the software I use for photo sharing. Whenever I take the photo it gets uploaded to the cloud and the overlay gets applied automatically. This is the overlay for the horizontal photos and I'd like to create one for vertical photos.

I opened a photo from my computer and changed the canvas size and it worked perfectly. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong within these layers for this function not to work...

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Alfonso RAuthor

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This is what you should be seeing, if the starter document really was landscape at 9 wide by 6 high:

I tried it in pixels and I see the exact message when I click enter. Here is the screen shot of that exact process.

When I click proceed, this is what I see...which doesn't look right...this is where I'm baffled.

However, if I click on the crop tool I see this, which looks closer to what I'm looking for.

I've watched multiple videos of this process and whenever I watch people change the canvas size it immediately changes. However, in this file it does not. When I open a single photo and adjust the canvas size it works seamlessly.

Thanks for your input, still trying different things.