After image selection and correcting image problems, I look at each image and decide how I'll use it in the slideshow. Generally, I like an image to be a full screen image for the show. Since I design my shows for a 1024 x 768 pixel screen resolution, I will sometimes crop to this size before spending a lot of time correcting image problems in parts of the original image that won't be seen in the slideshow. At other times, especially when the image is a portrait (taller than wide) rather than a landscape (wider than tall) and I want to use the entire image, I need to enlarge the canvas so that I can crop out a 1024 x 768 pixel slide. Figure 26 shows a full sized version of Starbucks on the Seattle Waterfront. Figure 27 shows a 1024 x 768 pixel crop of the original. As can be seen, because the image was a landscape, not much of the image was lost in the crop.



Figure 28 shows an image of two seahorses taken at the Seattle Aquarium. I wanted to include both animals in the 1024 x 768 pixel slide. The figure shows how I accomplished this. First, I added a new layer under the original image. Next, from the Image menu, I selected Canvas Size and extended the canvas size large enough to be able to crop out a 1024 X 768 pixel image. I then selected a piece of another image, water in a pool and dragged it into the Seahorse image as a new layer below the seahorses. Finally, using Free Transform (Ctrl + T), I resized the water to fit the 1024 x 768 pixel slide. Figure 28 shows this process near completion. The water has not been completely dragged to size. So, several familiar tools were used to complete this image.