Straightening and cropping an image

You’ll use the crop tool to trim and scale the photograph for this lesson so that it fits the space designed for it. You can use either the crop tool or the Crop command to crop an image.

You can decide whether to delete or discard the area outside of a rectangular selection, or whether to hide the area outside of the selection. In ImageReady, the Hide option is useful when creating animations with elements that move from off-screen into the live image area.

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In the toolbox, select the crop tool (). Then, in the tool options bar (at the top of the work area), enter the dimensions (in inches) of the finished ...

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