How to crop(not scale) images in illustrator without a clipping mask?

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September 27, 2018
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Recently I was able to scale the sides of the bounding box without the object losing it's position (sort of like a crop), but then i forgot the command. what's the accurate way to decrease the sides of an image without changing the position of the image?

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guys I finally found out how I did it. It did include clipping mask ..I first selected the image using the selection tool and then I went to object>clipping mask and pulled a single side of using the selection tool to make a crop:

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Anonymous

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guys I finally found out how I did it. It did include clipping mask ..I first selected the image using the selection tool and then I went to object>clipping mask and pulled a single side of using the selection tool to make a crop:

Muqqarib Hassan

Inspiring

That's Great!

But in the Question you ask without clipping mask. and now you did with clipping mask to make it crop.

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Anonymous

Yes it's my mistake i couldnt recall since i am still a beginner

tromboniator

Community Expert

You could use an Opacity Mask, but that's still a mask. Neither that nor the Clipping Mask changes the position of the image.

Peter

Theresa J

Community Expert

I’m not sure I correctly understand your question. If you are working with an older version of Illustrator, image crop isn’t an option. Your only choice is to “sort of crop” with a bounding box as you describe it. Cropping with a bounding box sounds like a clipping mask to me, unless you are confusing Illustrator and InDesign. If you are trying to crop the image with the “bounding box” or clipping mask in Illustrator, try using the direct select tool instead of the selection tool.

Muqqarib Hassan

Inspiring

Hi,

Simply open a image in illustrator and select the image by move tool and then in the controls bar click on crop image.

Ray Yorkshire

Participating Frequently

Unfortunately bitmap cropping isn't an option in Ai version 21.0.0

Muqqarib Hassan

Inspiring

Hi, Yes. But in this Ai version 21.0.0 We can crop it to by creating a clipping mask and then using the direct selection tool we can crop a bitmap image.