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 youll 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. Lets 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