# Choosing a Canvas Format

**URL:** https://www.tagtool.org/t/choosing-a-canvas-format/1451
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 12, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://www.tagtool.org/t/choosing-a-canvas-format/1451 "2019-06-12T12:27:00Z")
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### Author: ![Karen](https://cdn.tagtool.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@Karen](https://www.tagtool.org/u/Karen)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://www.tagtool.org/t/choosing-a-canvas-format/1451/1 "2019-06-12T12:27:00Z")

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Hello all. How do you decide what canvas format to use when choosing one? Thanks! Karen

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### Author: ![iink](https://cdn.tagtool.org/user_avatar/www.tagtool.org/iink/32/133_2.png) [@iink](https://www.tagtool.org/u/iink)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.tagtool.org/t/choosing-a-canvas-format/1451/2 "2019-06-12T19:02:51Z")

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Karen,

Most of the time you change the canvas size according to your connected external display. For example: A Full HD Display has a 1920 x 1080 resolution, an old VGA Monitor 1024 x 768 …  
The presets you can select cover the most common sizes.

Custom resolutions are quite interesting when taking screenshots. For example you can take square formats like 2000 x 2000.

Hope that helps,  
Mat