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

[Guest]

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?

[sishamIAGD]

Try reading this...

Crop images in Illustrator

[Guest]

Unfortunately my illustrator version doesn't have the crop image option

[sishamIAGD]

Can you let us know what version you are working with?

[Guest]

It's 21.0.0

[sishamIAGD]

Any reason for not updating?

[Muqqarib Hassan]

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]

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

[Muqqarib Hassan]

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.

[sishamIAGD]

Read the original question, they have asked to do it without using clipping mask..?

[Theresa J]

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.

[tromboniator]

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

[Guest · Accepted solution]

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]

That's Great!

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

[Guest]

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

[Muqqarib Hassan]

Got it.

[Jacob Bugge]

dohb,

As I (mis)understand it, you are masking the image rather than cropping it: the left part of the image is still there, only hidden because it is outside the Clipping Path, as you can see by the box with the cross.

Cropping actually gets rid of the outlying part(s).

So masking is reversible and sometimes troublesome when the outlying parts are unwanted/get in the way, whereas cropping is irreversible.