Summary: Pull the third side and put in the third staple on that side. Learn how to stretch a canvas for painting from a professional artist in this free video.
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"Alrighty. So, now let's go to the other side. Just looking, it's good to keep looking over what you've done just to make sure that you're doing everything the same. That's looking good. Ok. So, we're going to want to be putting them on this other side of the original staple. So, let's start on this side. Because, it's closest to me. You want to pull really tight. Make sure that it's smooth. You can see here. You want to put it about equal distance. That's going to be right about there. Ok. So, that's really good. Nice and smooth. Let's see what it looks like on the other side. It's looking good. We're nearly done. There's still a ridge there. Because, we're going to be applying the staple on this side. Once we do the next time, that will be gone."