Trimming the image The photograph in the “Image1” document has a border of black pix- els. You will use the Trim command to quickly remove the black border. To trim the paint object Select the paint object and choose Image > Area > Trim. Canvas determines the unwanted pixels and crops the image accord- ingly. However, this image still has some areas you might want to remove. For this you’ll crop the image. Cropping a paint object There are two crop modes in Canvas. You can use the Crop tool to select a rectangular part of a paint object and hide the rest. This is called a “soft crop.” Or you can permanently remove extra pixels by performing a “hard crop.” Performing a hard crop is easy using a shortcut key. Let’s perform a hard crop on this paint object. To hard crop an image 1 Click the paint object to select it. Selection handles appear. 2 Point to the lower-right corner handle, press and hold down the Ctrl key, and drag the handle toward the center of the image to crop it. Releasing the mouse button crops the image. If you crop too much, choose Edit > Undo. Changing the image mode As we mentioned earlier, there are a number of image file formats. There are also a number of image modes, including Black & White, Grayscale, Indexed, RGB Color, and CMYK Color. The mode of a paint object affects the level of editing that can be performed, the file Original Trimmed Drag the crop handle Cropped
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