Cropping an image

You can crop an image to remove unneeded parts of it and reduce its size by using the Crop tool.

 

To crop an image

  1. Select the Crop tool or press the shortcut key C.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • Drag from a corner of a needed area to select it.
    • Press Alt and drag from the center of a needed area to select it.
  3. (Optional) Hover over one of the square handles that surrounds the selected area and drag to change the shape of the selected area.
  4. (Optional) To move the selected area, move the pointer to inside of it, press Shift, and drag as needed.
  5. Move the pointer to inside the selected area and double-click.

 

To change options for the Crop tool after selecting it

  • In the tool options bar under the menu bar, change the options as needed:
    • Mask Opacity: Change the amount of shading used in the part of the image that will be cropped by using the slider or entering a value between 0 and 100 percent in the associated text box.
    • Guides: Select to add gridlines inside the crop selection area to aid in selecting the desired part of the original image.
    • Width: Enter the desired width of the cropped portion of the image in pixels.
    • Height: Enter the desired height of the cropped portion of the image in pixels.
    • Crop: Select to crop the part of an image in the crop selection area.
    • Cancel: Select to return to the original image and stop the cropping process. Note that the shortcut key for this button is the Esc key.
    • Delete Cropped Pixels: Select to have cropped files contain just the part of the original image in the crop selection area. Clear this check box to have cropped files that support layers (PXC and OpenRaster) still contain the original image and just have a cropped canvas. In this case, the size of the canvas could be increased in the future, and the cropped area could be changed or restored.
    • Allow Growing: Select to allow the crop selection area to extend outside the current canvas. This allows a cropped area to be a specific size, even if the area extends outside of the canvas. In a cropped image, the part outside the canvas is transparent.