Photo Answers
How to fix a too-tight crop
Q I have a photo where the subject is too close to the edge of the frame. Is there an easy way to create more room in front of it?
Lesley Butler
A You can do what you’re asking using Photoshop’s Add Canvas facility, but what it can achieve is limited because you have to ‘borrow’ new pixels from elsewhere within the frame. If you have a shot where the background area you are ‘copying’ is blurred and you only want to add a small area of extra canvas then you can get a good result.
Take your image into Photoshop and after copying the layer (Cmd/Ctrl+J), go to Image > Canvas size. In the dialogue box, click on the middle left-hand box if you want to add canvas to the front and add about 10 per cent
