From the course: Photo Tools Weekly

Image reveal all

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Image reveal all

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- [Chris] Hello friends and welcome to another episode of Photo Tools Weekly. In this one, I wanted to begin by letting you know that you can go to chrisorwig.com/ptw for Photo Tools Weekly, and here you can fill out a little form in order to submit questions or ideas for episodes. In this week's episode, it comes from a question from someone who asked about extending your canvas size, and so I wanted to show how you can do that using a command which is called Reveal All. Here we are in Photoshop, I have two images opened, and I'll use my Move tool and just click and drag one into the other document so that I now have a document which has two images in it, and you can see that in this way. Now, when you click and drag one of these images so that they overlap, it covers up the one, obviously underneath, and you can see that here. Or if we click and drag and scoot this out of the way, can you see how I'm scooting this all the way out of frame there so it's somewhere over here? What you can then do is go to Image pull-down menu, and click on this command right here, it's called Reveal All. What that will do is it will extend your canvas size so that you can see that image. If I click and drag it further, I can go to Image, Reveal All, and then it will extend it that way, or I can also go up in this way, too, and wherever that image is, it will open up my canvas size so that I can then resize this or reposition these within this particular document window. Now sometimes when you use Reveal All, just really helpful way to kinda extend the canvas and have some space to work with, right? And sometimes what will happen is you'll have this extra space, like I have above and below and over here. Well to get rid of that, just go to the Image pull-down menu and right above Reveal All is a command which is called Trim. Now with Trim, you have a dialog and you can say, hey, I wanna trim off, or trim away, or crop away the transparent pixels, so go ahead and click OK, and what that will do is it will now give me this nice layout that we have here, so we have these two images side by side. Now obviously we have this little bit of transparency in between these. If we wanted to add a color there, or a black or a white, what you could do is go over to you Adjustment Layer icon in the Layers panel and choose Solid Color. Then I'll choose a color that's really noticeable, let's say neon green, and this layer needs to be underneath the other layers and you can see how that's now filling in that gap, so to speak, and to change the color, just double-click the color chip and then here I could try out different colors, or most likely, it's gonna be best with something really simple like white, like that, but that gives you a little bit of flexibility. And there you have it, our tip this week for how we can extend our canvas, taking advantage of that command which is called Reveal All.

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