Crop image to clipping mask

[rezon8r]

I've searched the web inside and out, searched all of Adobe's tutorials, searched all the forums... ?

Can you crop a raster image to the clipping mask? I thought Adobe made this possible recently?

I have a large photo masked and want to crop the image to the mask.

A "Crop" means the image is destroyed. I don't want to mask it, I want to permanently crop it.

[Nancy OShea]

Which software and version are you using so this can be moved to the relevant product forum?

[rezon8r]

Latest Illustrator CC version.

[Nancy OShea]

[Moderator moved from Adobe Creative Cloud to Illustrator.] 

[mjbelt]

I would you Adobe Photoshop CC to crop your image. Best practices.

Assemble (place) into Illustrator.

[Monika Gause]

Freeform mask or simple rectangle?

[rezon8r]

Simple rectangle.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

In the current version you can just crop the image.

Crop images in Illustrator

[rezon8r]

*Solution: As it is a simple square/rectangle shape - the solution is to just simply use Object > Crop Image

Thanks for putting me on the right path Monika Gause.

cheers

[Monika Gause]

You're welcome!

[Jacob Bugge]

rezon,

You may Object/Edit>Flatten Transparency, just keep the defaults including 100% Vector.

[rezon8r]

This doesn't work.

[David5D7E]

Object > Rasterize did the trick for me just now.

I had multiple instances of a large image with different areas visible through Clipping Masks. I want the file to be portable (embedded images rather than linked files) and this method has brought the file size down from 2GB to 196MB.