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Scaling and cropping with the bounding box

Scaling and cropping with the bounding box - Illustrator Tutorial

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Scaling and cropping with the bounding box

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- [Deke] In this movie, I'll show you how to scale and crop a photo using its bounding box, which is not necessarily my preferred approach, but I want you to know how it works. So the first thing I'm going to do is click on my photo with the Black Arrow Tool to select it, and then I'll go up to the View menu and choose Show Bounding Box, which also has a keyboard shortcut of Control + Shift + B, and now notice that I can rotate the image by dragging slightly outside of its boundaries. Don't want to do that, however. So I'll press Control + Z or Command + Z on the Mac, to undo that change. Instead, I'm going to scale this guy, either proportionally, if you press the Shift key, or non proportionally, if you don't press the Shift key. All right, now, for the sake of demonstration, I'm going to duplicate this image by pressing the Alt key or the Option key in the Mac, and dragging it like so. All right, now at this point, you can…

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