Pictures - Crop

Quick reference

• 00:04 In this lesson, we're gonna learn how to crop pictures and how this little
• 00:08 feature actually works, still working on the Trader News sample news letter.
• 00:12 It's in the files with the video or you can click file new and pull it up.
• 00:16 I'm actually going to turn off my Graphics Manager over here,
• 00:20 that's also on the view ribbon, turn off Graphics Manager.
• 00:23 And I'm going to collapse my ribbons so I can get more screen room.
• 00:26 Now I'm going to put this in the middle and Ctrl+wheel up with your mouse or
• 00:31 use the zoom control right down here to zoom in so we can see the picture nice and
• 00:35 large on our screen.
• 00:37 All right, when I activate the picture,
• 00:38 notice we have handles around the edges of it, the little squares and circles.
• 00:42 And we have a rotate option here where I can actually tip the picture sideways.
• 00:46 Control+Z will undo that or
• 00:48 this button right up here that says Undo will do the same thing.
• 00:52 Now when I've activated the picture,
• 00:53 I have a brand new Picture Tools ribbon up on top.
• 00:56 I'll go ahead and click on Format and here's our Crop section right over here.
• 01:00 When I click on Crop, observe what happens to the handles.
• 01:03 They turned into black lines.
• 01:05 When I move my mouse down here and float on one of the black lines, the mouse turns
• 01:08 into a completely different shape that matches the line I'm floated on.
• 01:12 So I'm going to aim for the top right hand corner, the crop corner.
• 01:15 If I go outside, I don't have the right mouse.
• 01:17 So I'm gonna click right there and I'm gonna crop this down a little bit,
• 01:21 about halfway in size vertically.
• 01:23 And when I let go, notice the original picture still maintains itself.
• 01:27 It's still in the background.
• 01:28 We're basically cropping the picture frame and allowing only this section to show.
• 01:32 To see how it's gonna look, I'm gonna click off to the left onto the margin area
• 01:36 and you can see that's all that's left.
• 01:38 Now I'm gonna go ahead and activate this picture again.
• 01:41 And I'm gonna come back up here to Format, because there's a couple
• 01:44 of the buttons that were grayed out a moment ago, but now they have options.
• 01:47 So this one will actually fit the entire picture into that shape.
• 01:52 So I'm gonna go ahead and click on that, and notice what happened.
• 01:54 It doesn't look near as good.
• 01:56 But notice the shape outline is there, but it's trying to fit the entire picture
• 02:00 in there and all the parameters of that picture.
• 02:03 So I'm gonna draw your attention to the space between the top of the chair and
• 02:07 the wall, look at the distance there.
• 02:09 Now I'm gonna show you the other option.
• 02:11 Right up here on the top right, that was our Fit.
• 02:14 Now this one is called the Fill.
• 02:15 If you watch that chair and the wall I just pointed out, I'm gonna go ahead and
• 02:19 activate Fill and here's the difference.
• 02:21 I click that one, notice it now filled the picture,
• 02:24 doesn't care about the parameters.
• 02:27 And the top of the chair is at the top of the picture.
• 02:29 So that's the difference between the fit and the fill.
• 02:33 So at any time, if you want to uncrop this, maybe I would just Ctrl+Z right now.
• 02:39 But maybe it's tomorrow, and I wanna uncrop this.
• 02:43 We have this Clear Crop right here.
• 02:45 When I clear the crop, it will bring it all back, but
• 02:47 it won't set it back to its original position.
• 02:50 I have to literally click and drag to move it.
• 02:53 That's why I prefer to use the Control+z, it would do all that moving for me.
• 02:57 There's one more little piece of magic in here and that is crop to a shape.
• 03:00 So again I'm on the picture, I go to my Picture Tools.
• 03:04 I click on Format, I go to my Crop but instead of hitting this top button,
• 03:08 I'm gonna hit the drop down arrow, and that gives me an option to crop, to shape.
• 03:12 All my shapes come up and I have this little banner right down here.
• 03:15 I'm going to go ahead and click on the banner, and
• 03:19 you can see in the background what's going to happen, what areas will be cropped out.
• 03:23 And maybe I want to make this a little smaller so I can actually
• 03:26 make that banner shape a little smaller, and I'm going to click off of it.
• 03:31 Again, what if your boss says, well I like that, but
• 03:34 I want more of the background wall there?
• 03:36 Well, no problem.
• 03:36 I'm gonna click on this again.
• 03:38 I have to go back to the cropping in order to move that picture around,
• 03:42 cuz I've gotta see the original picture.
• 03:44 And watch, I'm just gonna move the picture and
• 03:48 adjust how much of that picture's gonna show up in the shape.
• 03:51 And that's the secret to cropping is your original picture keeps itself whole.
• 03:57 It's just a shape we're cropping, and then it's up to you to
• 03:59 actually move the picture around to see the part that you wanna end up seeing.
• 04:03 It's pretty great.
• 04:04 You might not be a master of it right away, but
• 04:06 at least you'll understand all the features of it.
• 04:08 All right, have fun with that.
• 04:10 Thanks.

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