Canvas Resizing not Working

[Lamont]

With some inagesm I cannot get the canvas size to work. Instead I get a reverse crop oa crop I have done peviously to the image.

 

Let's say I have an image that I have cropped to my liking. Now I rescale it to 5x3.75" @300 ppi. I resize the canvas to 6x4" for convenient printing of the image with a white border. However, resizing the canvas instead uncrops the image a bit. It does not revert the crop completely and it does not revert the image size (pixels by pixels), and the canvas size does not change. Happned to 2 out of my last 5 Images. I had another person try to rule out user error. Same result in 1.3.5 and 1.3.5.5. What gives?

[anon1]

You have to go to "layer > flatten" before you resize/ expand the canvas because the crop is non destructive by default.

 

Hope I got it right ;)

[Lamont]

The images in question have only one layer (Background). There is nothing to flatten, so that's not it.

 

You nention crops are non-destructive. I did not realize this. How does one undo the crop after saving a cropped image as .afphoto?

 

But you bring up another unrelated issue I find weird and confusing: In an image that has only one layer (Background), if I choose "merge visible" I get a new layer (Pixels). I find this utterly befuddling.  What is that all about?

[anon1]

It actually just works that way.

 

It's logical as it merges the layers and produces a new layer .... So that's a perfectly fine behaviour.

[anon1]

You could also use a 6x4" rectangle and use it as a clipping mask. Then you don't have to flatten the document because the resizing is done through the clipping mask.

[MEB]

Hi Lamont,

Alternatively, right-click on the Background layer in the Layers panel and select Rasterise... to get rid of the hidden cropped data before resizing the canvas.