#Canva image resize how to

So, there's just a couple of things to check here. There's a lot of information here, but you don't have to work through all of it, particularly when you're resizing an image that will be viewed on the screen as opposed to print. Over on the left, you can see a preview of the image and on the right, are the controls for changing image size. If you like, you can make this window bigger by going to the bottom right corner and dragging out. To resize this image, I'll go up to the Image menu, and I'll choose Image Size. Since we want to put it in a spot that's only 900 pixels wide on our website, that means we'll be scaling it down. In the small window that pops up, we can see that this file is 1800 pixels wide by 1200 pixels high. I'll go down to the status bar at the bottom of the Document window, and I'll click and hold on the document size information. That's because, if you enlarge an image a lot, at some point, it can start to look blurry. In most cases, you'll want to start with an image that's bigger than or at least not a lot smaller than the resized image that you need.

Before we resize this image, let's check how big it is to start with. I'd like to set the size of this image, so that it's a good fit for posting to a particular website, where I happen to know, that the ideal image size is 900 pixels wide. I suggest that you start with this image from the downloadable practice files for this tutorial.

#Canva image resize how to

Let's talk about how to change the size of an image in Photoshop.