User Guide

Chapter 5: Painting And Image Editing
1. Select the Crop tool and Ctrl-click the image you want to crop. Canvas displays a cropping
rectangle around the boundary of the image.
2. Position the cropping rectangle so it frames the part of the image you want to keep.
Drag a handle to resize the cropping rectangle.
To move the cropping rectangle, point to any side, and the pointer changes to a hand.
Drag the cropping rectangle to reposition it.
3. Press Esc or click in the image to complete the crop.
To add pixels with the Crop tool:
1. Select the Crop tool and point to the image you want to crop.
If the paint object you crop is an Indexed mode object, the color of the added pixels is
the last color in the color table associated with the image, which often is black.
2. Alt-click the image you want to enlarge. Canvas displays a cropping rectangle with hollow
square handles at the corners.
3. Drag the handles of the cropping rectangle to enlarge it.
4. Press Esc or click in the image to complete the crop.
Adding a white border
When you press a modifier key and click with the Crop tool, you can expand a paint object. This adds
a white border to an RGB Color or CMYK Color image.
To quickly crop an image with the Selection tool:
1. When a paint object is selected (not in edit mode), point to a handle, and then press Ctrl and
drag the handle. When you drag, a cropping rectangle appears.
2. Drag inward to crop (cut away) part of the object. Drag outward to add pixels and expand
the object. Release the mouse to complete the operation.
To constrain the cropping rectangle as you drag:
Do one or more of the following:
To constrain the height and width of the cropping rectangle proportionally: Release the
Ctrl key, and then press Shift while dragging.
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