: How do I enlarge canvas/artboard size without effecting artwork? I hand-lettered a logo on the corner of a sheet of paper, scanned it, then cropped out everything but the logo, turning it into

@Sarah814

I would place a white box without a stroke behind the logo - or which ever color you'd prefer. Then save again - of course, as stated you must keep the 1:1 ratio for Instasquare.

Here is why:

Illustrator's art board appears as white - creating the illusion it is an object. In reality the white art board is transparent and non-existent, differing in this way from photoshop. It is "painted white" for you so that you do not have to struggle to see your vector lines against the checkered background.

However, when you save down a file - it will "crop" to the bounding box (or more) leaving the visible object and/or group. So if you have an object that does not fill the full area of the canvas- you have nothing to communicate to illustrator that you want to "keep your canvas".

Hope this made sense - I hated figuring this out on my own years ago!

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@Lee3735518

Are you uploading your image at the correct ratio? I did a quick search and I think Instagram profile picture is 110x110. You will need to upload at a 1:1 ratio or you will need to crop the image. So make your canvas 1:1 size as well.

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