
In this tutorial, I’m using Adobe Illustrator 2022. It may seem like you are cutting objects, but cropping an image is different.Īdobe Illustrator is flexible enough to help you with that. When you crop your images, vector graphics, text, and more, you can either remove part of your item completely off from the artwork or only hide the items you’d like to cover, without removing any parts permanently. There are three ways you can use to crop in illustrator. But how do you crop an image in Adobe Illustrator? There may be one way to crop in Microsoft Powerpoint or Canva.

That can be chopping off areas of your material you don’t wish to show. There must be a way to scale precisely to a specific reference point in illustrator.If you have to design any material for your content, chances are, you need to crop images or graphics. It seems the scaling has been executed relative to one of these limited nine reference point choices instead of the reference point I specified. One would think all would be perfect, but then I look and my reference point has vanished!

▲ I nudge the numbers in the Control Panel until the image is perfectly aligned. ▲ Now zoomed in somewhere else, I am trying to get the black border of this bitmap image to align perfectly with the vector guide by scaling it. ▲ The circle marks where I would like the center of my scale transformation to be. Some images to help illustrate what I mean: And moving/zooming are disabled while the dialog window is up, meaning I cannot navigate to the guide I need to see.įor these reasons, I need to be zoomed in on the guide, tweaking the measurements from the top Control Panel. The Scale tool's pop-up dialog isn't useful either. It overshoots or undershoots the guide I'm aiming for. Well, I tried using this click-drag scaling method as well, but the level of precision is too low to be usable. Pointer away from the reference point, and then drag until the object

Want the reference point to be in the document window, move the To scale relative to a different reference point, click where you In Illustrator is there a way to precisely scale to a pivot point or "reference point" that is off the screen? I mean when you want to zoom in somewhere far away from where you set that point and then scale precisely to align something.
