Fit To Canvas/Make Canvas For Backgrounds

So, I'm in the process of making a campaign for a game session I'm having tonight and it struck me as odd that the only way to really fit background pics and such I find through the art library is to click the resize box and drag the pics to fit the canvas. This usually doesn't work perfectly, but it works well enough. I was wondering if there could be a better way to do this, perhaps by creating a "Fit To Canvas" right-click option when in the Map & Background layer. Another idea I had would be to allow the GM an option when making a new page (or messing with a page's settings) to simply fit the page around a background pic the GM might upload. Rather than changing the canvas size to fit the picture itself, why not make it a simple one step process and have the canvas size simply be the picture size, if the GM so chooses to do it that way. Just some suggestions I had! Hopefully this hasn't been brought up before and I haven't bloated the forums with repeated suggestions, haha.

Hi Requiem, 100% agreed! I have been thinking the same since the first time I saw Roll20. Now that I see this thread, I'm a bit surprised seeing that it seems to have passed almost unnoticed! Here are my reasons for supporting Requiem's suggestions: When placing and fitting image backgrounds and maps, I find that correctly calculating the size of the canvas for a Roll20 page a bit odd and unnecessarily "complicated" task: I need to check the size in pixels of the image, and then configure the canvas for making it approximately match the image by assigning the correct number of Roll20 image units (70 pixels each). If I don't do this, just placing an image into a Roll20 page too often results in a canvas that is larger or smaller than it should be regards its X or Y dimensions, which means inelegant empty spaces not covered at all by the image. What, then, if instead of just manually sizing or setting dimensions by entering numbers, there is an auto-fit option for just automatically placing the image / map / background inside the canvas of a Roll20 page? I think that would be a sensible approach. Even better if you could just drop an image file -map, background, etc- into a Roll20 page, and the canvas is automatically calculated and created according to the size of the image, to match it. With this feature(s), arranging maps and images as Roll20 pages in a given campaign would be a pretty easy and fast task on the user's side, unless one, for some reason, really wants to use the current options for resizing images according to a preexistent space or canvas.

On the other hand, I acknowledge that I don't get completely the role of Roll20's page canvases. I wonder, wouldn't it be easier to just place the main background image in the visible space, and then proceed to resize such image as needed? What is exactly the canvas for? Also, what is the purpose of that non-customizable grayish -almost white- space outside a Roll20's page canvas?

Having an option to auto fitting canvas to graphic or vice versa is an awesome no brainer.

Placing and fitting background images or maps in Roll20 pages could be much more intuitive and quick, so I very much agree with these suggestions.