What am I doing wrong? Coming from Photoshop (where it is very different and so much easier) I thought I finally had Resize Canvas figured out. Got it to work as desired several times yesterday using the exact same steps below. Today, using those steps, I get equal amounts added to the vertical sides, nothing added to the horizontal edges.
Document > Resize Canvas
Click on lock to unlock
Change pixels to Inches
Click on Center of Anchor
Click in 1st size box 29.88 in + 1 in
Hit Return…now reads 30.88
Click in 2nd size box…36.47 + 1 in
Hit Return…now reads 37.47
Click on Resize
And I get the amount added only to the vertical edges. The only difference between today and yesterday is that I did do a crop on this image. Is that the problem today?
And is there a simpler, better, easier (any of those) way to add equal amounts (specified in amount of inches) to each side of an image? I want to create a color-fillable mat around my background layer. I don't mind changing the way I do things…if I could just determine what I need to change them to.
Help, please?