How to crop an image in Illustrator?
How to crop an image in Illustrator?
Question
I've read a few tutorials but I'm still new to Illustrator. Currently, I am trying to work with a sketch that I am trying to position on the artboard. If I were to resize the entire shape the sketch is drawn on to within the bounds of the artboard, however, the sketch would be too small. How can I crop or otherwise keep the sketch the same size as it is in the image below, while keeping the shape it is on within the artboard?
Accepted Answer
for <= Illustrator CS6
You can not crop raster images in Illustrator. At least not with the standard Adobe installation.
You can utilize clipping masks if that helps.
- Draw a rectangle above the raster image.
- Select both the rectangle and the image
- choose
Object > Clipping Mask > Make.
This will hide a portion of the raster image but will not remove it.
If you need the raster image cropped, standard procedure is to crop the raster image in a raster editing application, such as Photoshop, before placing or importing the image into Illustrator.
There is a third party plug in titled Rasterino from www.astutegraphics.com which will crop raster images from within Illustrator.
For >= Illustrator CC
Select the image, and click the Crop Image button on the Control bar across the top of the screen.
Popular Answer
You CAN crop raster images in Illustrator.
- Draw a rectangle above the raster image.
- Select both the rectangle and the image
- choose Object > Clipping Mask > Make.
- change blending mode to "darken" from transparency tab
- choose Object > Flatten Transparency..> OK
- Choose Object > Expand...
Now you have trimmed raster object.