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Projects: Elephants

Projects: Elephants

For this project you will see a slightly different setup instead of having two artboards we have the tasks written down within the same canvas area as the main project that we are working on. The reason I had to set it up this way is because we will be using features like the expand canvas and that wouldn't work well if we have artboards or it would be a little bit complicated to use. So as the first step we'll have to expand the canvas by 500 pixels to the top and 500 pixels to the bottom. So if I go to the image menu and choose canvas size if I type in 1000 pixels for the height and have the relative option turned on and the anchor set in the middle it's going to expand it by 1000 pixels all together but it's going to divide it between the top and the bottom equally. So we can click OK and we can see that happening. Now we will have to fill in these empty areas on the top and the bottom and for this I'm going to use the rectangular marquee tool so let me just make a selection up…

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