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  • Placing Images in Illustrator CS

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    When you place a pic in InDesign, you get a frame and can move the image around within the frame. If you want to resize the image, you have to specify how you want it resized (fit to frame, fit proportionally, etc), otherwise, the image is cropped. Is there a way to accomplish the same affect in Illustrator? I've got images that I need to be cropped, but I'd rather do it right in Illustrator instead of on the root image. Is this even possible? If so, how?

    Thanks in advance!
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    Place the image
    Draw the box size you want and place over the image
    Select both image and box
    command+7.
    To select just the image use the direct select tool.
    There are several irksome things about the way Illy handles images in this fashion. It treats the box AND its image as a whole. Placing using coordinates is darn near impossible.

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    • #3
      If you want to crop a raster image in Illy, you can always draw a solid rectangle over the parts of the image you want to be taken out. Then select the rectangle and the image, open the pathfinder tool, click on the subtract from shape, and hit expand.

      Not sure if there's a better way.

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      • #4
        It works differently in Illustrator. You need to draw a box on top of the photo, then select both the box and the photo and go to Object>Clipping Mask>Make.
        Then you can use the direct selector (the white one) to select only the clipping box, or the edges of the clipping box to crop as desired.

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        • #5
          Awesome guys! Thanks.

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          • #6
            Sketcher, I think your method embeds the image. Which is usually a bad thing.

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            • #7
              Yeah, I just did the clipping mask and it's exactly what I wanted to do.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by PrintDriver View Post
                There are several irksome things about the way Illy handles images in this fashion. It treats the box AND its image as a whole. Placing using coordinates is darn near impossible.
                I really hate the way illy does this. makes me miss corel and the powerclip funtion, which just treats the box as the object, rather than including the underlying image as well.

                this is one of my biggest gripes about illy - has anyone found a workaround for this?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Paj View Post
                  I really hate the way illy does this. makes me miss corel and the powerclip funtion, which just treats the box as the object, rather than including the underlying image as well.

                  this is one of my biggest gripes about illy - has anyone found a workaround for this?
                  You can select the clipping mask box (or whatever shape it is) on its own from the layers pallete and adjust it accordingly, seperate from the linked image.

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