To remove pixels when cropping an image
In hard-crop mode, the Crop tool discards pixels that are outside the
cropping rectangle.
1
Select the Crop tool in the Painting Tools toolbar and Com-
mand-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (Windows) the image you want to
crop. Canvas displays a cropping rectangle around the boundary of
the image.
2
Position the cropping rectangle so it frames the part of the
image you want to keep.
Drag a handle to resize the cropping rectangle.
To move the cropping rectangle, point to any side, and the
pointer changes to a hand. Drag the cropping rectangle to
reposition it.
3
Press Esc or click in the image to complete the crop.
To add pixels with the Crop tool
1
Select the Crop tool in the Painting Tools toolbar and point to
the image you want to crop.
2
Command-click (Mac) or Alt-click (Windows) the image you
want to enlarge. Canvas displays a cropping rectangle with hollow
square handles at the corners.
3
Drag the handles of the cropping rectangle to enlarge it
4
Press Esc or click in the image to complete the crop.
Cropping an image
Adjust the cropping rectangle
with the Crop tool by
dragging a handle. Enclose
the area you want to keep,
and then press Esc to hide the
cropped part of the image.
Cropping rectangle
Tip
You can quickly crop or expand
a paint object using the Selec-
tion tool. Select the paint
object (dont put it in edit
mode), then Ctrl-drag a handle
to crop or add pixels to the
image. When you drag, the
cropping rectangle and han-
dles appear. When you release
the mouse, Canvas applies a
hard crop.