Cutting, slicing and erasing PHOTOS and imported images in Illustrator cs4!

Monika read the thread. I was importing a GIF to use in a project I was trying to crop it and it wouldnt let me. to accomplish the task I had to change the object settings to embedded and then was able to crop it..

It's been a long time since this was posted but I wanted to throw an answer out there for anyone still looking to do this.

A couple easy ways that may work for your project is:

1. A Clipping Mask. Create a shape over the photo, any shape. Then select both the shape and the photo. Once the shape and the photo are selected go to Object> Clipping Mask> Make. This will crop your photo to what ever shape you created on top. It's an easy way to trim any unwanted parts of your photo.

2. With your photo selected, click the direct selection tool (the white arrow), and directly alter and resize your photo (without effecting the proportions) using the anchor points shown around your photo. Sometimes you have to click your object then click anywhere outside your object to see the anchor points.

Hope this helps!

GaNa,

Illy sees raster images as something basically inaccessible within a Bounding Box, and all the tools for handling vector artwork are of no use to her for that.

One of the things she can do is to create a Clipping Mask and mask out parts (make them invisible, but still selectable); it is possible to get rid of those parts in a rather destructive way.

The Slice Tool works on the Bounding Box, and she may be able feel her way to certain pixels with the Live Trace Tool.