Your image will appear in the uploads once uploaded. Choose Uploads and upload the image you wish to resize. Once you click “Create New Design” the artboard will open with a tool bar to your left.

We are using 1000 x 1500 px for this tutorial. Choose “Custom Size” on the lower left side of the drop-down menu. Log into your Canva dashboard and start by clicking “Create Design”. For the sake of this tutorial, I will share how to resize in Canva, you can check out my other post, on how to resize in Photoshop: as both of these options are the most used and offer the bonus step of optimization. Canva and Picmonkey have free options where Adobe is a paid subscription. You have a few options to resize your images, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Canva, or PicMonkey to name a few. Both of these options will leave your end image looking less than stellar. If it is too small there could be an unsightly border or your image may be stretched and pixelated in order to fit. If you load an image too large for your application it might be cropped which would cut off the top, bottom, and/or sides of the image. Sometimes you won’t have guidance and you might need to try a few sizes by trial and error to get it just right.

Typically, you’ll know the pixel width and height your image needs to be based on what your designer has shared or what the application asks for. Each of those examples has various image size needs.

Adobe illustrator how to resize image