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Raster Image not cropping to clipping mask?

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I've done this a bunch of times where I make a clipping mask over a rasterized image, then rasterizing it as a whole so it takes up less memory. But for some reason today when I try to rasterize it, it crops to the original dimensions of the image?? Using this photo as an example

1. Make a clipping Mask

2. Rasterized the Masked image

3. Doesn't crop to the shape of the image? This is now a full raster photo with a massive border that I have to manually crop (has to be cropped for what I'm doing at work)

Any ideas? Couldn't find a way to word this online or find any answers. I've played with all the Rasterize settings too

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Ton FrederiksCorrect answer

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Looks fixed in beta and prerelease versions

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BEG Graphics

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Having this problem too - any fixes?

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Doug A Roberts

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It's fixed in the beta and prerelease versions.

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digitaldiane

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I'm having this issue too. Please help to fix it.

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Ton Frederiks

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Looks fixed in beta and prerelease versions

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Kurt Gold

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Pretty odd. It took about two decades to introduce the right behaviour, but it took only a couple of years or months to reintroduce the wrong behaviour.

However, as far as I can see the temporary workaround in AI 28.5 is to first convert the clipped objects into a static symbol and then use the Object menu > Rasterize command.

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Erica Pixie

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Hi, I was also surprised to see this change and rolled back to the previous version, which resolved the issue. Unfortunately, my presets weren't kept which meant I had to import actions and rearrange my workspace, so just warning anyone else that this will happen. Hopefully the next update will revert back to rasterizing to the size of the clipping mask.

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Ton Frederiks

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Looks like this problem is back:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/35245114-rasterizing-a-clipped-image-group-of-objects-resul

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Ton Frederiks

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Looks like a bug, tried it in the 2023 version and there it only rasterizes the part inside the clipping mask.

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softdogsAuthor

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Dang alright! At least we have a workaround for the time being. thanks for the help

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joulesgarcia

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This is happening to me too! It's completely ignoring the clipmask whenever I'm rasterizing, and I end up having to crop the rastered images to what I need them to be

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