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Cropping photos
The easiest way to crop a photo is to just drag
on it when in the Enhance Tool
, or you can just drag one of the 8 control
handles around the outside to adjust the edge of
any selected photo.
For more advanced cropping control, select the Clip button on the
Photo Tool
flyout bar which provides aspect ratio control and precise numeric
clipping control.
This also provides an Un-clip button that will remove any clip rectangle and restore the original image.
One important feature is that this crop feature is really a dynamic clip, in other words it's a
non-destructive crop, and you can adjust the crop boundary afterwards to reveal hidden parts of the
photo. If you want to really crop - i.e. make this a destructive crop, that really removes the invisible parts
of an image then use the Optimize Photo
feature.
Cropping photos with a mask
If you want to make non-rectangular photo shapes or cut pieces out of a photo, use a mask. First select
the photo and then turn on Mask Mode.
Turn on Mask Mode by clicking on icon in the top bar.
The view turns pink. Now use any of the standard drawing tools to draw onto the mask layer over your
photo, just as you would draw onto a normal drawing layer. Then select the photo underneath, or clear
the selection (press "Esc"). Now if you copy ("Ctrl + C") you will copy just the unmasked part of the
photo to the paste buffer. Hit "Delete" and you'll delete the unmasked part. Or press "Ctrl + X" to cut it.
You can also use the mask to apply a Clipview or use the "Arrange" > "Combine
" shapes operations with it.
See the Mask chapter
for more information on using masks.
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