Press the Shift key as you drag to constrain movement to Click and drag when this pointer appears to move the When this tool is selected and you move the pointer over a picture box that contains a picture, the hand pointer ( ) Within its box, use the Picture Content tool.
If you want to move a picture box-and the picture within-simply click and drag the box with the Item tool however, if you want to move a picture The portion of the picture within the box is visible as you drag. Unfortunately, when you use a modifier key, only The Command or Control key before you drag, you’ll scale both the Release the Command or Control key, and then drag. The trick here is to first press theĬommand key (Mac) or Control key (Windows), click a box resizing handle, When this occurs, clicking a box’s resizing handle willĪctually select the picture resizing handle, and if you drag, you’llĬhange the scale of the picture. Handles of a picture box overlap the rounded blue resizing handles of a Right: The final, cropped picture selected withĬontent tool gets a little tricky when the small, square resizing With the Picture Content tool, the cropped areas are visible beyond theĮdge of the picture box. Middle: After using the Item tool toĭrag the picture box’s resizing handles and then selecting the picture Picture, indicating that the dimensions of the picture box are the sameĪs the dimensions of the picture. The picture box coincide with the rounded resizing handles of the
Figure 1 shows a before, during, and after example of cropping. The picture is inside the picture box and what areas are gettingĬropped. The onscreen display is continually updated to show you what portion of Square resizing handles to crop the picture within. When you click a picture box with the PictureĬontent tool, any cropped areas of the picture are lightened toĭistinguish them from the live area. Picture Content tool is generally better for this task because you’re able to see what’s being cropped as you drag the mouse. Although the Item tool lets you crop pictures, the But an easier option-and one that doesn’t actually deleteĪnything from the original graphic file-is to crop imported pictures Have the option of cropping the graphic file using an image-editing If you want to print only part of a picture, you