How to crop a photo?

this question sounds too easy, but i just can't find it in Illustrator cs4.
thanks.

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    How do I crop a photo so that I can keep the sides of the photo but remove the middle part.

    You do not want to crop.  Sound more like you want to cut and paste and move areas.
    crop (krp)
    n.
    1.
    a. Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group: Wheat is a common crop. 
    b. The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place: an orchard that produced a huge crop of apples last year.
    2. A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time: a crop of new ideas.
    3. A short haircut.
    4. An earmark on an animal.
    5.
    a. A short whip used in horseback riding, with a loop serving as a lash. 
    b. The stock of a whip.
    6. Zoology
    a. A pouchlike enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings. 
    b. A similar enlargement in the digestive tract of annelids and insects.
    v. cropped, crop·ping, crops
    v.tr.
    1.
    a. To cut or bite off the tops or ends of: crop a hedge; sheep cropping grass. 
    b. To cut (hair, for example) very short.
    c. To clip (an animal's ears, for example).
    d. To trim (a photograph or picture, for example).
    2.
    a. To harvest: crop salmon. 
    b. To cause to grow or yield a crop.
    v.intr.
    1. To feed on growing grasses and herbage. 
    2. To plant, grow, or yield a crop.
    Phrasal Verb:
    crop up
    To appear unexpectedly or occasionally: "one of the many theories that keep cropping up in his story" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt). 

  • In PSE11, how do I "crop" a photo into a circle?

    I would greatly appreciate step-by-step instruction on how to "crop" a photo into a circle in PSE11.
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    I understand that I can't technically "crop" it but I need the image to appear to be circular by using the transparency feature.
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    I'm curious as to why reply#1 didn't work. That is basic PSE stuff. Was the selection still active with marching ants as asked in reply#3? Perhaps somehow the selection was deleted before doing the inverse.
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  • After I have cropped a photo how do I save it.  Something is wrong, my computer will not let me close photoshop

    I cropped a photo and saved it as a TIFF.  I can not close down photo shop or burn the photo to a disk.  How do I save the photo once I crop it?

    Use the menu option File>Save As. When you close photoshop, it should have asked you if you want to save the file. If photoshop does not ask you and refuses to close, odds are something else is wrong.
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    Next thing to do is uninstalling then reinstalling photoshop.
    If that still does not help, then it may be time to contact Adobe.

  • How can I automatically crop a photo based on its content (a black border)?

    I scanned hundred of negatives.
    The scanner produced .jpg files.  Most of the scanned images show the negatives holder to one side as a black border.  The black border is thicker or thinner depending on the photo.
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    I have Photoshop 12 and I know about Actions.  I just don't know how to tell the engine to only crop if it is required, and by how much.
    This could save me days of manual work.  Thankyou.
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    Thank you miss marple for your Image>Canvas Size... suggestion.  I used it to implement a semi automated process.
    I programmed a couple of actions:
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    - one to trim the top side by 7 pixles
    Then I assigned a shortcut key to each action.
    Since I have to open each photo individually anyway to remove larger scratches (see my other post), it is easy to hit a couple of keyboard keys to trigger the relevant 'border removal' action.
    The main thing is that in 95% of cases I don't have to use the mouse to fix the borders, but I use keyboard keys only.  It is a real time saver.

  • How do I crop finished photo - PS CS 4?

    Hello - I've finished a photo and have flattened all the layers, and even unlocked the new flattened layer, and now I want to crop this photo, but when I go to Image, the crop feature is grayed out - how do I crop away unwanted portions of this photo? Am running photoshop CS 4.
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    Right, you should make a selection first, and then the Image > Crop command is available:)

  • How can I edit photos on iPad 1? Rotate photos, crop photos. Used to work before OS5 update.

    How can I edit photos on iPad 1? I want to rotate photos, crop them, etc.  Is there a specific mode that I have to be in to edit? I believe it used to work before I "upgraded" to ios5. Would like any help here. Thanks

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  • Mugshot as Custom Avatar. How to crop photo?

    Dear Fellow Mac Users,
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    Crop
    However, I found it to be difficult to drag the cropping handles to exclude unwanted background and still show my mug. (I want my chin in the photo.)
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    marlafromchetek
    28/09/2011 4:40 AM
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    This solved my question by Old Toad  on Sep 28, 2011 4:59 AM
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    I am posting in Apple Support Communities > Using Apple Support Communities. Please advise if there is a more appropriate forum.
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    Thanks Larry. It was the 100 x 100 that did the trick.
    Thanks seventy one for the tip to try iPhoto forum.
    Thanks Frank. The post I pointed to did not say which app to use to crop to a square.
    Regards,
    Ian.

  • I have lightroom 5.  After cropping a photo, how can I zoom the small cropped photo for slideshow?

    After cropping a photo, how can I zoom the small cropped photo to fill the screen on a slideshow?

    Thank you
    ELHID
    JimHess <[email protected]> wrote:
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    "Re: I have lightroom 5.  After cropping a photo, how can I zoom the small cropped photo for slideshow?"
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  • Controlling how ATV crops photos?

    When I manually click through my library of photos, the ATV seems to randomly crop in on the photos. I have a 42" HDTV, so the format translation should be fine, but photos getting chopped off and not all in the same manner.
    Anybody?

    Exactly how the tv chooses to crop photos that don't match the output ratio of 16:9 is something I haven't given a lot of thought to. The fact that it does simply doesn't suit me, although it likely just crops evenly top and bottom.
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  • How to crop photos on iPhone without reducing quality?

    I've discovered that the crop function in the standard Photos app reduces the resolution of the remaining portion of the photo (beyond what you would expect after removing part of the image). The Photos app seems to re-encode the image at a lower image quality than the Camera app achieved when it originally took the photo.
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    Thank you for the quick reply.
    Yes, I understand that a crop function should just remove parts of the image without changing the resolution of what remains. But that's not what I see on the iPhone.
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  • How do I crop a photo to the shape of a star?

    I'm working on this tacky Hannah Montana thing for a design interview. I need to crop her photo into the shape of a star.

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