Cropping Images

Cropping Images

Cropping Images

You can adjust the overall size of an image cropping or removing unwanted areas, for example, excessive background. Also, you can crop an image and scale it to a specified size at the same time.

To Crop an Image

  1. Select an image.

  2. Select the Image contextual tab of the Ribbon.

  3. Click Crop from the Crop & Scale panel.


  4. The blue bounds with small handles appear on the edges of the selected image.

  5. Adjust the cropping area by dragging the sides of the cropping bounds.

  6. Move the cropping bounds, if necessary.

  7. When you are ready to crop, click inside the cropping bounds.

Mouse Pointer

Operation


This mouse pointer is outside of the cropping bounds. You cannot do anything.


This mouse pointer is at one of the small blue square handles on the cropping bounds. You can drag it to resize the cropping bounds.


This mouse pointer is on one of the 4 sides of the cropping bounds. You can drag the cropping bounds to move it.


This mouse pointer is the indicator of the cropping mode. You can click inside the cropping bounds to execute the crop.

 

Example



In the cropping mode

The cropping bounds are adjusted.

 

 
 


 
 
 

The cropped image

 


When an image is selected, Crop is also available in the context menu which is displayed by Right-click.

 


 

 

To Add White or Transparent Pixels to an Image

  1. Select an image.

  2. Select the Image contextual tab of the Ribbon.

  3. Click Crop from the Crop & Scale panel.


  4. The blue bounds with small handles appear on the edges of the selected image.

  5. Drag the sides of the cropping bounds outward to add the frame area.

  6. When you are ready to crop, click inside the cropping bounds.

Example



In cropping mode – background is a light blue.

Add padding to the cropping bounds.

 


The white frame is added.

 


When an image is in PNG or TIF which has the transparency mask, transparent pixels are added instead of white pixels. Click Remove Transparency in the Mask panel of the Image contextual tab of the Ribbon to make them in white.

 

To Crop & Scale an Image

  1. Select an image.

  2. Select the Image contextual tab of the Ribbon.

  3. Click Crop & Scale from the Crop & Scale panel.

  4. The blue bounds with small handles appear in the selected size. The image may be automatically scaled.

  5. Adjust the cropping area by dragging one of the 4 corner handles of the cropping bounds.

  6. Move the cropping bounds if necessary.

  7. When you are ready to crop, click inside the cropping bounds.

Example



2 ¼ in x 3 ¼ in is selected.

The cropped image in 2 ¼ in x 3 ¼.

 


When “Custom” is selected from the Crop & Scale drop-list, you can specify the width and height of the cropping bounds.

 



 

To Trim the One-Color Frame from an Image

  1. Select an image with one-color frame.

  2. Select the Image contextual tab of the Ribbon.

  3. Click Trim from the Trim panel.


Example



The image has gray frame.

The gray frame is removed.

 

To Crop an Image with a Shape

  1. Select an image.

  2. Draw a shape that you want to trim the image.

  3. Resize and position the shape over the image, if necessary.

  4. Click the Draw tab of the Ribbon.

  5. Click Clipping Path drop-down list from the Clipping Path panel.

  6. Select Trim to Path.


Example



A shape is placed on the image.

Trim to Path is applied. 
The background is transparent.

 


This operation is permanent. The image cannot be restored to the original state later. About a non-destructive method, please refer to: Using Clipping Path.



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