As mentioned in Chapter 2, The Paint.NET Workspace, there is a difference between resizing your canvas and resizing your image. Your canvas size refers to the size of the document you are working on or the size of your finished document.
If you have imported a photo from a camera with a large sensor, for instance, an SLR camera, your image size will be very large because it will hold a lot of information. Most likely, you are not going to print an image of this size, so we will have to make it a little more manageable. First, we will want to resize the image to make it a little smaller:
Because we opened the image first, Paint.NET sets the size of the canvas to the size of the image. As you can see, the image has a width of 72 inches and a height of 48 inches. An image of this size would be impractical if you were to print something like a flier on a standard sheet of paper.
So it is here that you can resize your image to something a bit more manageable. You can do this in...