Sometimes the images I had to put on the artwork were different sizes, so I had to crop them into the same or at least correspondent shape or size in order to make the design look nice.
That was such a struggle. Windows or other versions might look slightly different. Depending on how you want your image cropped, there are several options to make it happen and the simplest way is no doubt, the crop tool. But if you want to crop out a shape, or have the freedom to manipulate the image, use the clipping mask or opacity mask method. This is the quickest and easiest way to crop an image if you want to trim a photo in a rectangular shape.
Step 2: Click on the image. Step 3: Click the Crop Image option. A crop area box will show on the image. You can crop an image by making a clipping mask with the help of pen tool or shape tools depending on what shape you want. Create a shape on top of the image, and make a clipping mask.
In this tutorial, I use the pen tool to create a shape. Step 1 : Select the pen tool and start tracing the cat outline, remember to close the path at the last anchor point. Step 2 : Select both the image and the pen tool path.
The path must be on top of the image. The "Crop Image" tool is only available in Illustrator or newer. Click on and drag the crop marks in the corner of the image. The crop marks are in the corner and sides of the image.
Dragging the crop marks inwards displays a rectangle with dotted lines inside the image. The light part of the image outside the rectangle is the area that will be removed with the image is cropped. Center the rectangle around the area of the image you want to keep. Click on OK. It's in the Control Panel at the top of the screen or in the Properties. This crops your image.
Method 2. To do so click on the yellow and brown app that contains the letters " Ai In Vector art, a clipping mask uses the object or shape on top to crop all the images and objects below the object. Create graphics or place an image.
You can apply a clipping mask to a raster image, or vector graphics created in Illustrator. Use the art tools to create graphics, or use the following steps to place an image: Click File in the menu bar at the top. Draw your clipping mask over your image.
You can make the clipping mask any shape you want. You can use the rectangle or ellipse tool to create a rectangle or oval-shaped clipping mask, or you can use the Pen tool to create a custom shape for your clipping mask.
Place the shape over the area of the image or graphics you want to keep. To make things easier to see, turn the fill off on the clipping mask shape, and make the stroke a clearly visible color. You can apply a clipping mask to multiple objects, but the clipping mask shape must be on top. To bring the clipping mask shape to the top click it with the selection tool, then click Object in the menu bar.
Then click Arrange , followed by Bring to Front. Click the Selection tool. The selection tool is the icon that resembles a black arrow. It's at the top of the toolbar on the left. Select everything you want to crop. To select everything, click and drag over all objects you want to crop.
This selects all objects, including the clipping mask shape. Click Object. It's in the menu bar at the top of Illustrator. This displays a drop-down menu. Click Clipping Mask. It's near the bottom of the drop-down menu below "Object".
This displays a sub-menu to the left. Click Make. This creates a clipping mask. When happy with the crop, click on the Apply button in the Control and Properties Panels. The resultant image now has the excess image data removed. Note that unless you Undo the operation now, without resorting to re-placing the image in the document, there's no way to revert back to the original un-cropped image.
Several years before Adobe got around to adding true image cropping to Adobe Illustrator, Astute Graphics introduced the Rasterino plugin. This product, now part of our subscription , features the Crop Image Tool. Next, click-and-hold the Eraser Tool icon in the toolbox highlighted red below and release the mouse when hovering over the Crop Image Tool. It is important an embedded image is selected.
If the image is linked, first embed it using the appropriate button found in the Control or Properties Panels. A frame annotation will appear around the embedded image with control handles as well as a floating information annotation with a "tick" and "cross" icon to either apply the desired crop or cancel.
The floating annotation also provides before and after pixel dimensions. Alternatively, use the Enter Return key to quickly apply a crop. Whereas the native and Rasterino image cropping methods detailed to this point are adequate for quick visual tasks, it's sometimes necessary to make a more precise change or control multiple images simultaneously.
The example image used throughout the article was edited in Photoshop so that a radial gradient transparency was introduced.
When the image was embedded in Illustrator, the extremities of the image were redundant due to a lack of opacity. The common situation of having a transparent image embedded in Illustrator with excessive transparency masking is an ideal situation for using the Trim Image function via the Rasterino Panel. With the semi-transparent image selected in Illustrator, the Trim Image icon in the Rasterino Panel was selected highlighted in red to open the Trim Image dialog.
The defaults of Transparent Pixels and Preview remained selected highlighted in green. Automatically, the image boundary annotation shows the suggested image crop that will take place illustrated with the yellow arrows. Click on OK to trim the image and crop away the excess transparency pixels, or Copy to maintain the underlying image and place a trimmed copy exactly in position on top. All visual guesswork to achieve this has been eliminated.
This Rasterino function also allows for the trimming of excess flat color areas based on the top left or bottom right pixels. If you need to be very precise about the final image size, it's highly recommended you use the Crop Image dialogue accessed via the Rasterino Panel.
With one or more embedded images selected, even if different sizes, click on the Crop Image icon to open the dialogue. From here, you can numerically adjust the image size with annotated previews on the artboard of the result. Critically, you can crop by stating how much you want to reduce the image by, instead of absolute. Plus, easy access to the units of measurement used to determine the crop are presented.
As with the Trim Image function, OK will fix the crop whilst Copy will maintain the underlying image s and place the resultant cropped image instances on top in position. It's important to consider the differences between linked images and embedded images when looking at cropping.
It's only possible to apply a clipping mask crop to linked images as true cropping removing pixels will require edits to the external image file in Photoshop or similar. Using linked images can help reduce Adobe Illustrator file and ensure the same image such as a logo is used across multiple projects. Both native Illustrator functionality and Rasterino provide methods to relink an embedded image if required.
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