For another small design element, add a line between the two pieces of text by using the Line tool (U). From a design point of view, I find it works well to use a bold and a lighter weigh font together.Ģ.
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I used Avenir Heavy on the words “Statue of Liberty” and Avenir Book on the words New York City. Using the Type tool, (T), add some text to the bottom of the canvas.
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Your photo may convert better with a different preset, so try them all out and see which one you like best.ġ. I know that this preset will work well with this photo because there is a lovely blue sky with fluffy white clouds in it. I’m going to take the easy route and choose High Contrast Red Filter from the presets drop-down menu. From here you can play with lots of sliders to get the black and white look you want. Choose Black and White from the pop-up menu.Ģ. In the Layers panel, click on the Add Adjustment Layer icon at the bottom. We can then finish the poster with a small piece of text. For this example, I’m going to use the Black and White adjustment layer. There are many ways to convert an image to black and white.
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How To Convert A Photo To Black And White And Add Text To An Image The grey desktop area that you include in the crop area will be converted to extra image canvas and will appear white because that is the current background colour.Īnd that’s how you add canvas all around. Press Enter (PC) or Return (Mac) to finalise the Crop. For the effect I wanted to achieve, I dragged out further to give a larger white area underneath the photo.ħ. Drag out on the left and right middle handles so you add the same amount of white background all around. Click and drag out the top middle handle so that the cropping area is now outside the image. The crop bounding box appears around your image.Ħ. Looking in the layers panel, notice this image only has one layer – the Background layer.ĥ. Zoom right out so that you can see all of the image and some of the grey area around it.Ĥ. In this case, I want to add extra white canvas around the image, press D on the keyboard to set the Foreground and Background colours to Black and White respectively.ģ.
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I’m a picture I took of a certain Lady Liberty during a fantastic trip to New York.Ģ. In Photoshop, open an image that you want to add a white canvas area to. Follow along and I’ll show you how to increase the canvas size and then turn your image into an eye-catching black and white poster like this one.Īdding Extra White Canvas With The Crop Toolġ. It works well for posters and you could also easily adapt it to create a polaroid style image. The Crop tool in Photoshop is used to crop or make an image smaller, but did you know you can also use the Crop tool to add to the canvas area? This is an easy way to add a larger border or white space around an image.