Aspect Ratios & Canvas Sizes: Crop or Scale, and Even Margins
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You compare the ratio of a reference photo with seven canvas sizes, calculate how much of the image is lost when a canvas is filled and fit the image into a 50 × 40 cm canvas with even margins.
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Lessons in this course
- Proportions in Head Units: a Canon Table, Target Positions and Measured vs Target Ratios Locked
- Grid Enlargement: Scale Factor, Grid Squares on Paper and Canvas, Transferring Points Locked
- Aspect Ratios & Canvas Sizes: Crop or Scale, and Even Margins Locked
- One-Point Perspective: Horizon, Vanishing Point and Receding Sizes by Similar Triangles Locked
- Two-Point Perspective: Box Corners from Two Vanishing Points and Checking Lines Locked
- Composition Grids: Rule of Thirds, Golden-Ratio Lines and Focal-Point Placement Locked
- Colour-Mixing Ratios: Parts to Millilitres, the Limiting Colour and Paint per Canvas Locked
- Capstone: Mats, Frame Moulding Length and a Price-per-cm² Table with a Chart Locked