Cropping and Artboards

[SusanSherman]

I have image content that extends beyond the artboard edge. I want to cut/crop/eliminate that portion of the image but I have found no way to do this in Illustrator. The content I am working with is a photograph, but it would be far too tedious to attempt to get a perfect crop size/line in Photoshop and then place the image into Illustrator. I need to complete the ad artwork in Illustrator because there is vector artwork involved, which can't be done in Photoshop. I could attempt to complete each individual piece in it's own program and then composite them in InDesign - but I cherish my sanity just a bit too much for that!

Is there any way to complete this "simple" task in Illustrator?

Ubiquitous Information:

Adobe Illustrator CS6

Version 16.0.3 (64.bit)

fully up to date

Windows 7 professional

version 6.1 SP 1

fully up to date

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Susan

[Kris Hunt]

Just use a clipping mask on the photo.

> it would be far too tedious to attempt to get a perfect crop size/line in Photoshop and then place the image into Illustrator.

Would it really?

[Jacob Bugge]

Susan,

To really get rid of the outlying parts you may do as follows:

Create a rectangle with the same size and position as the Artboard (with Smart Guides on you may ClickDrag between opposite corners), or similarly if you wish a different cropping, then select both rectangle and photo, and then there is the dirty destructive deed, with the Clipping Mask selected:

1) In the Transparency palette/panel dropdown list select anything but Normal (Multiply is fine; this step may be unneeded in your version, you may try without it);

2) Object>Flatten Transparency, just keep the defaults including 100% Vector;

3) Shudder (optional, unless unavoidable).