From the course: Adobe Certified Professional - Photoshop Cert Prep

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Modifying the canvas or image

Modifying the canvas or image

Before we can talk about the transformational features of Photoshop that can affect single layers or individual objects we have to look at the global transformations that we can do and the two most significant features we have to talk about are the canvas size and image size options both available from the image menu. Now let's start with image size. Once you select this you will be able to change the pixel dimensions of your document. I can just click on this image and see a detail like this one here and within the image size dialog box we will see an actual pixel size view of that which will really help us to determine the amount of detail in this image and the resolution of it. So we can see it's a very high resolution image close to 6 000 pixels in width and 3200 pixels in height. There's two main ways of using the image size dialog box. You can either use it to resample the image which can be used to increase its size or make it smaller so as long as the resampling is turned on…

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