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Menu Project - Size and Color

 

The canvas is the white rectangle on your screen where you place your object. You can place objects anywhere else and it is perfectly fine, but canvas represents the part which will be exported, so it defines the size of the output image. You can, however, export any other part of the document with the Crop Tool.

To change the Canvas Size and color:

From menu: Project select Size and Color

Here you can change the size and the background color. You can set the background color by typing the web color or selecting it from the color selector. Clicking on the Color preview, the left part of the color selector will bring you another window, where you can set the color by specifying RGB, Hue, Sat, Lum, or pick a color from the basic windows colors.

Tip: You can also change the background color during Export.

To change the default Canvas size, which appears on startup or anytime you press New:

From Menu: Project select General Settings

Note: In this case the current document doesn't change.

If the active document is a Package then this dialog sets the size and color of the package canvas. See more.