User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
A high-resolution image stored in
a Canvas Image File on disk.
A low-resolution proxy replaces
the image in a Canvas document.
The proxy is linked to the Canvas
Image File.
Replacing an image with a proxy
The procedure described in this section lets you replace an image contained in a Canvas document
with a low-resolution proxy. When you do this, Canvas exports the original image to a Canvas Image
File, and links the Canvas Image File to the proxy.
If you later double-click the proxy for editing, Canvas loads the original image from the Canvas Image
File. You can edit the original image as you would any other Canvas paint object. When you leave
image-editing mode, Canvas stores the changes in the Canvas Image File and then displays the proxy
again.
To create a proxy linked to an image file:
1. In the Canvas document, select the image object you want to replace with a proxy.
2. Choose Image | Proxy | Make Proxy.
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