User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
3. Click a square in the Placement grid to set the position of the resulting image; e.g., to crop
the image from the right side and bottom, click the upper-left square in the Placement grid.
To expand the image on all sides, click the center square.
4. Click OK to resize the image. If you are reducing the image area, Canvas warns you it will
delete pixels; click OK to proceed.
Using the Crop & Scale menu
Canvas features a Crop & Scale menu that you can easily access via the Properties bar when an image
object is selected.
When you choose a cropping size from the Crop & Scale menu and apply it to a selected image, a
cropping rectangle appears on the image, just as if you were using the Crop tool. Click inside this
rectangle and Canvas crops your image.
Cropping options
Canvas can crop an image in three ways: Soft Crop, Hard Crop, as well as Crop and Scale. The
cropping options also appear in the Properties bar after clicking the Crop tool on an image.
Hard Crop: Extra pixels are permanently removed.
Soft Crop: Extra pixels are temporarily hidden. When the image is in edit mode, you can see
the hidden pixels.
Crop & Scale: When applied, a hard crop is performed and the resulting image is scaled
proportionally.
Apply a cropping size from the Crop & Scale menu to a selected image and various cropping options
appear in the Properties bar.
Crop & Scale options
Width/Height Width and height of cropping rectangle in pixels.
Final Size Width and height of cropping rectangle in current ruler units.
Hard & soft crop
options
Select either radio button to perform a permanent or temporary crop.
The cropped image is not scaled with these options.
Crop & Scale Select this radio button to permanently crop and scale an image. After
cropping, the image is scaled proportionally. With the Crop & Scale
option, you can also define the DPI of the image by entering a value in
the New DPI field.
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