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My selection tool won't crop an image correctly!!!

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
September 8, 2017
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My selection tool won't crop an image correctly when I drag the frame from one of the points. Instead it moves the entire image to fit the frame, resizing it vs. letting me crop what I want. This seems to be some sort of defualt when I upgraded. Anyone know how to turn this off? I am not posting images within a frame.

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Correct answer Bill Silbert

It sounds like you've been using the Direct Selection tool (the white arrow) which will activate the image within the frame for moving and sizing. If you click on a point of the outer frame with the group selection tool (the black arrow) you can adjust the dimensions of the frame to crop the image.

sacrates73

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I FINALLY figured this out. Hope you did too. If not:

Set frame fitting options

You can associate a fitting option to a placeholder frame so that whenever new content is placed in that frame, the fitting command is applied.

1. Select a frame.

2. Choose Object > Fitting > Frame Fitting Options.

3. Specify the following options, and then click OK:

Auto-Fit

Select this option if you want the image to resize automatically when you resize the frame.

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at27176644

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I found this helpful because, even when using just the black Selection tool, the object was re-sizing. This fixed the problem.

Frans v.d. Geest

Community Expert

Check to see if auto resize is turned on (checkmark in Control panel).

aguerrero217

Participant

This 100% fixed my problem.

To others, make sure you have the image selected in order to adjust the setting in your control panel.

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erickrios

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This is the correct answer

Bill Silbert

Correct answer

Community Expert

It sounds like you've been using the Direct Selection tool (the white arrow) which will activate the image within the frame for moving and sizing. If you click on a point of the outer frame with the group selection tool (the black arrow) you can adjust the dimensions of the frame to crop the image.

cmgap

Community Expert

Check to make sure you don't have constrain crop on if you are in Lightroom..

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Ian Blogs

Inspiring

Make sure you are using the correct selection tool. Use the black one.

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laurieh36731737Author

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Indesign

John T Smith

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The Lounge Forum is not for technical help, please provide the name of the program you are using so your message may be moved to the correct program forum... A program would be Photoshop or InDesign or Illustrator or ???

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laurieh36731737Author

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Any help would be appreciated. I can't contact anyone at Adobe, Can't find anything in the forums or online search. It's making my job very difficult to work in InDesign. Thank you

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