Because your increasing the size around it which although transparent still takes up space. So when you use it your image will be reduced. Try just resizing the image a bit...not so much as to make it blur. Or when making the canvas bigger don't make it so big.

Suppose once you have increased the canvas size and have your image as you want it, you control click the image in the layers palette to select all, than invert the selection and hit delete. You will than have only the image and none of the transparency surrounding it.

Or maybe just crop it and then do a slight resize if needed.

You've got the right idea Sinperium, but I learned from the information above that I don't need to mess with the canvas size. All I need to do is increase the size of the image to bigger than what I need and the canvas will stretch with it. Then using the "Transform" options like "scale" , "skew" , or "perspective", I can manually decrease the size of the image so it all fits on the canvas. Then when I save it, although it is still bigger than what I need, that's a good thing , because in my icon software, I can manually decrease the size even further by dragging the borders to the exact dimensions I need. My problem in the past was that the image was starting out too small and you can't increase the size in my software, you can only decrease it. So now, all is good and I'm a very happy camper. I'm so thankful for all the wonderful help I get here at WC. It's a free education everyday, and who can complain about that ?         -- Ace ---

I do it and look at me. My insanity quotient has increased by one order of magnitude. Go figure.

ahh....very nice Doc ! Thank-you so much for that awsome info. You're the best !!

Best advice yet. I always have at least one copy of the work I'm doing. My problem stems from not remembering where I put them. lol