Photoshop Scale Image To Fit Canvas

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The closest you'll get is the Trim… command in the Image menu.

answered Aug 19 '11 at 23:50

ghoppeghoppe

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If the content is bigger than the canvas it's not working as Fireworks 'Fit to canvas' tool. Only when the content is smaller than the canvas it works fine.

Sep 29 '13 at 7:43
@AwQiruiGuo As I said, it's the closest you'll get. If it's something you need to do often, it's relatively straightforward to make a photoshop action to change the canvas size to something arbitrarily large so that the content is surrounded by blank space, then use the trim command.

Sep 30 '13 at 15:09
@ghoppe : Actually, in an instance where the content is larger than the canvas, "Reveal All" is right there in the Image menu – no recording an action required.

Aug 16 '14 at 22:39
You could just increase the canvas size to anything that is bigger than your image, and then use trim.

Jan 13 '15 at 14:49

I'm using Photoshop CC 2014 at the moment and could simply achieve that by doing Image > Reveal All.

answered Mar 25 '15 at 15:30

I know this is an old question/answer but I've been struggling with this forever and didn't know "Reveal All" existed. Thank you for teaching me something new!

Sep 2 '15 at 0:53
Unless the image is smaller than the canvas

Mar 24 '16 at 11:25
You just need to make the canvas smaller than the image then reveal all, and it'll expand just enough to fit the image.

May 13 '17 at 18:14

use rectangular select (M) over the whole image
copy the image (Ctrl/Option+C)
File > New...
on Preset click Clipboard
then paste it there (Ctrl/Option+V)

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answered Jun 18 '14 at 8:33

AlistairAlistair

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This is usually what I do, no matter the editor. Seems if you have a freshly filled clipboard in Photoshop CC 2015, the preset will be already configured to Clipboard already, with the dimensions of the the clipboard.

Feb 23 '16 at 2:49

Go to: Edit > Preferences > General > and check the box that says "Resize Image During Place" Then when you place an image, it will fit it to your canvas.

answered Feb 23 '16 at 18:12

You could always simply crop close to the edges of your content. Zoom in to be more precise.

answered Dec 6 '13 at 20:48

Using menu command "File...Automate...Fit Image" is one option.

answered Aug 16 '14 at 22:05

you have to use crop , select the width and height of the image for the canvas , and the canvas will adjust for you

answered Jan 20 '15 at 15:57

go to your preferences (command K). check the box "resize image during place"

answered Aug 27 '15 at 15:07

If you already have a lot of layers and the other suggested solutions don't work.

You can always go to image > Canvas and make a note of the dimensions. enter image description here

Then choose your image, CTRL & T for Transform and enter in the canvas dimensions.

You can click the little chain if you want it to keep it's proportions then just enter either the width or the height. enter image description here

answered Mar 24 '16 at 11:34

EoinEoin

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I did it this way: Replace the 100% width in the topbar by the width in pixels of your canvas. (Replace the % with 'px'). Be sure the Keep Aspect Ration chain-icon is active.

answered Feb 5 '18 at 12:36

When you need to give a precise margin distance between object or product in already clipped images in a transparent background you can get it by:

Image > Trim > Transparent pixels and click all sides.
Image > Canvas size: Relative and add millimeters or inches

That's all

answered Feb 10 '19 at 13:35

I know this is an old thread, found it while hoping there was finally a better solution for this but since Photoshop is horrid seems there is not. The only solutions I have found is to copy the layer and do a new document based on whats in the clipboard. The other alternative is to work with a canvas much larger then you anticipate.

answered Dec 29 '19 at 10:52

Welcome to GDSE! Have you seen that this already have an accepted answer which in my eyes seems to be correct? (Especially if you read the comments as well.) I think you are missing the possibility to "Image > Reveal All" followed by "Image > Trim".

Dec 29 '19 at 16:08

In Photoshop its alt+i+r at the same time.

answered Aug 16 '14 at 13:42