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Cropping images

Cropping images - Illustrator Tutorial

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Cropping images

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- [Instructor] Okay, let's place another image into this Illustrator document. So I'm going to use the shortcut Shift + Command + P. That would be Shift + Control + P of course on Windows. And I've got this file here, LadyLaser.psd. Of course her stage name, wasn't born with that name at all I'm sure. And also it's made up, so let's not worry too much. And I'll simply click to place that image. Now that could do with a bit of resizing, so I'm going to hold down the Shift key and bring that down, away like so. And then work out how large, it does need to be a bit larger than that I think. There we go. So it wasn't too far off the original size. But anyway, so this image has just a transparency-based layer inside of it with Lady Laser on that actual layer, and there's a whole load of stuff here that I really don't need. So I'm actually going to crop that down. And the Crop Image command is here in the control strip, and…

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