Raster Image not cropping to clipping mask?

[softdogs]

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

[Monika Gause]

Does the crop function not work for that?

[softdogs]

no I don't believe it works if one of them is a raster img. I tried haha 

[Doug A Roberts]

Not Pathfinder Crop -- this:

[softdogs]

oh gotcha, yeah its the workaround I've been using. just makes taskes more tedious since I need the crop to be precise by milimeters. and it used to automatically crop to transparency so I'm wondering if it's a bug or not since I didn't change any settings

[joulesgarcia]

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

[softdogs]

Huh! I wonder if it's a bug if you just started experiencing it as well! Wonder if rolling back a version would fix the problem haha

[Vojta35297631lbd7]

It stopped working for me too after installing the latest update. It worked fine yesterday with the older version.

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

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

[softdogs]

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

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Looks like this problem is back:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/35245114-raster...

[Erica Pixie]

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. 

[Kurt Gold]

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.

[digitaldiane]

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

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Looks fixed in beta and prerelease versions