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andersn60104161
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January 2, 2018
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Crop Image

  • January 2, 2018
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Hi,

Im searching for a way to crop images.

Basically what I want do is to draw a rectangle, place it somewhere over the picture and crop the image according to the rectangle.

I do not want to make a mask, its a real crop that I want to achieve.

Does anybody have any thoughts on this?

Best regards

Anders

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Correct answer Silly-V

Unfortunately we don't have access to the new image cropping tool.

But the good news is, Carlos made a script for it!

Image Crop Script | Ai Scripts

Also from https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/21015/how-to-crop-an-image-in-illustrator

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You CAN crop raster images in Illustrator.

  • Draw a rectangle above the raster image.
  • Select both the rectangle and the image
  • choose Object > Clipping Mask > Make.
  • change blending mode to "darken" from transparency tab
  • choose Object > Flatten Transparency..> OK
  • Choose Object > Expand...

Now you have trimmed raster object.

I've also seen this described where there's a opacity:0 white rectangle used on top as the crop object. So, using CS6+ AI versions it would be possible to script this whole process with the use of actions.

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Silly-V
Silly-VCorrect answer
Legend
January 2, 2018

Unfortunately we don't have access to the new image cropping tool.

But the good news is, Carlos made a script for it!

Image Crop Script | Ai Scripts

Also from https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/21015/how-to-crop-an-image-in-illustrator

down vote

You CAN crop raster images in Illustrator.

  • Draw a rectangle above the raster image.
  • Select both the rectangle and the image
  • choose Object > Clipping Mask > Make.
  • change blending mode to "darken" from transparency tab
  • choose Object > Flatten Transparency..> OK
  • Choose Object > Expand...

Now you have trimmed raster object.

I've also seen this described where there's a opacity:0 white rectangle used on top as the crop object. So, using CS6+ AI versions it would be possible to script this whole process with the use of actions.

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andersn60104161Author
Participant
January 2, 2018

Awesome! I followed your steps and put them in an action which I run from a script and it works as desired.

Thank you!

Best regards

Anders

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