Not only it’s often times easier to select the area you want to crop, you can make it any shape you want and it will work with any artwork. The vector path that we were adjusting in the previous method actually was an automatically created rectangular clipping mask, but you can create your own. Switch to Direct Selection Tool (A), or hold Ctrl/Cmd to temporary switch) and Shift-click the image to deselect it, or alternatively, in the Layers panel, Shift-click the aforementioned colored box on the right. Check on the Layers panel ( Window > Layers, or F7 key) if your image is selected – selected art is indicated by a colored box on the right. This can be tricky – linked image will show a diagonal cross indicating its selection but embedded image will not. Tip: You need to make sure you’ve not accidentally selected your image itself, only the mask’s vector path. Using Selection Tool (V), adjust corners or sides of the bounding box to frame the image.Select image and click Mask button located next to the previously discussed Crop Image button.Also, this way you can readjust your framing of the image with ease. Using Mask you will crop everything to a vector path without affecting the image itself, allowing you to maintain links to your images and not embed them. Adjust the cropping frame by dragging its edges, corners or the inside of the frame itself.The original image will not be affected by and will not affect the image inside your artwork. Meaning that it will create a (cropped) copy and save it inside your Illustrator file. If your image is a link to the file, Illustrator will warn you that cropping it will embed the image. Click Crop Image on the Properties or Control panel.You can use Illustrator’s simple built-in functionality to crop raster images (photos or other images made of pixels). However, if you need to crop your vector artwork or an embedded image, or simply have no other options, there are several ways you can do it in Ai. You can do it but it’s best to use Photoshop instead. If you need to crop a photo, Adobe Illustrator really is NOT the best program to do that.
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