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| Anonymous 2003-12-06, 4:42 pm |
| I apologize in advance for such a dumb question. All I want to do is crop a
jpg image so I can use it on my website. It came to me from a different
source and has white space around it, and I'm using it in an area that
doesn't have a white background. So all I'm doing is cutting away the white
background around a rectangular object.
If I move the handles, the whole image gets resized. In MS Office, the tool
that does what I want is called crop. Searching under crop here gives me
information about setting crop marks, bleed areas and so on. Am I wrong
thinking Illustrator should be able to do this, or just overlooking
something that should be obvious?
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| Paul Asente 2003-12-06, 4:42 pm |
| In article <ruidna_fjL88gE-iRVn-sw@comcast.com>,
"Anonymous" <anon@fairmark.com> wrote:
quote:
> I apologize in advance for such a dumb question. All I want to do is crop a
> jpg image so I can use it on my website. It came to me from a different
> source and has white space around it, and I'm using it in an area that
> doesn't have a white background. So all I'm doing is cutting away the white
> background around a rectangular object.
>
> If I move the handles, the whole image gets resized. In MS Office, the tool
> that does what I want is called crop. Searching under crop here gives me
> information about setting crop marks, bleed areas and so on. Am I wrong
> thinking Illustrator should be able to do this, or just overlooking
> something that should be obvious?
Not a dumb question, but, no, this is not something that you can easily
do in Illustrator. You want Photoshop or some other image editing
application to do this. (Don't buy Photoshop just for this--even simple
picture viewing applications often have this feature).
-- paul asente
To reply, make the host be the same as my last name
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| Anonymous 2003-12-06, 4:42 pm |
| Thanks, it turned out I could do this is Irfanview. Hadn't thought of that.
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| LauraK 2003-12-06, 4:42 pm |
| >If I move the handles, the whole image gets resized. In MS Office, the toolquote:
>that does what I want is called crop. Searching under crop here gives me
>information about setting crop marks, bleed areas and so on. Am I wrong
>thinking Illustrator should be able to do this, or just overlooking
>something that should be obvious?
Illustrator doesn't do this. Illustrator is a vector program. A .jpg is a
bitmap/raster and you need to use Photoshop or Fireworks or another program
that does bitmap images for this.
laurak@madmousergraphics.com
http://www.madmousergraphics.com
web design, print design, photography
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| Just set the crop marks and save-for-web. It will crop the white in the
save-for-web dialogue.
Yitz
"Anonymous" <anon@fairmark.com> wrote in message
news:ruidna_fjL88gE-iRVn-sw@comcast.com...quote:
> I apologize in advance for such a dumb question. All I want to do is crop
aquote:
> jpg image so I can use it on my website. It came to me from a different
> source and has white space around it, and I'm using it in an area that
> doesn't have a white background. So all I'm doing is cutting away the
whitequote:
> background around a rectangular object.
>
> If I move the handles, the whole image gets resized. In MS Office, the
toolquote:
> that does what I want is called crop. Searching under crop here gives me
> information about setting crop marks, bleed areas and so on. Am I wrong
> thinking Illustrator should be able to do this, or just overlooking
> something that should be obvious?
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