Comments on: Requested Tutorial: Crop Excess Illustrator Artwork

By: sampheap

sampheap — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:37:33 +0000

Crlt+7 is just better.

By: Akash

Akash — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:04:00 +0000

tutorial is just fine.. but still not impressed with illustrator crop tool.. they should look more in developing a simpler method of cropping artwork.. anyways thanks..

By: frustrated

frustrated — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:57:20 +0000

Kind of a stupid process for such an expensive program. They could have just made a simple crop tool. Sheesh. Way to waste time.

Should be…Crop and hit enter. done.

By: amit

amit — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:42:38 +0000

thanks for tutorial

but i want to give shadow effect out that that is some outside from artboard, when i crop and export, exported artwork not exat size shoadow area remail as a white area. so what can i do to cut like photoshop cut tool.

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By: Johny

Johny — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:51:15 +0000

Thank you Bitt, its a very helpful tip, saves me a lot of time…….. thanks again.

By: joel

joel — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:34:21 +0000

Just something i found- probably obvious-follows on from the tutorial- You can place the rectangle yourself onto the area you want to crop, then it is aligned as you want. You have already moved the rectangle to the front (as per tutorial above). Then you select all as above, and use the pathfinder to crop. This worked for me anyway! Main thing is the removal of the align tool! Interested to know if this works for everyone. Just worked for me as said!

By: kev

kev — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:53:00 +0000

thank you very much!!!! Saves me loads of tme!

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:46:17 +0000

I’m in my first class of Illustrator and this tutuorial was very helpful. THANKS!

By: Zabet

Zabet — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:35:50 +0000

Everytime I try and crop I loose my whole image. The top square is aligned and no layers are locked and I select all but when I hit crop I don’t loose the top square and I loose the design. Any suggestions please.

By: Aaron Miller

Aaron Miller — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:30:02 +0000

Good tip.

anyway way of doing this, incase you still want the elements, etc

is to make sure the cropping shape is ontop of everything, on the same layer and go to select all, then make clipping mask.

By: Masker

Masker — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:39:19 +0000

Thanks, very helpful. Those techniques are hard to discover if you aren’t told by anyone (but easy to replicate step by step).

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jiqiang30 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:36:07 +0000

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By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:48:44 +0000

Great tutorial. Thank you!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:54:36 +0000

Awesome! I’m new to Illustrator and loathed it for not having a crop tool. This is a huge help. Thanks!

By: DaddyBit

DaddyBit — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:03:12 +0000

YEP, agreed with JET. Another big trouble is that this method removes all groups from artwork. It is real pain to restore them in case of big number of shapes :(

By: James E. Talmage

James E. Talmage — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:57:33 +0000

Why is it that every time someone points to Illustrator’s Pathfinders as some “exotic secret” method for cropping vector artwork, the demonstrator conveniently leaves out art elements which reveal how utterly inadequate the “solution” really is. I’m speaking, of course, of simple stroked paths.

Try the method described here. But before you do, include in the original artwork something other than merely unstroked filled paths. Truth is, the Crop Pathfinder removes strokes. Completely useless on one of the most commonly-needed cropping situations: maps.

To crop a map or any other artwork containing strokes with the method shown here requires you to first Outline Stroke on all paths. If you don’t, the strokes will be gone in the results.

Truth is, Illustrator fails to provide one of the most fundamental vector editing tools: a proper cutting tool.

I don’t know what it is with Illustrator’s pandemic inability to properly handle unfilled open strokes, but it must be something foundational to the program because it affects all tools and commands that should come into play when needing to cut paths.

Only the very lame Scissor tool cuts open unfilled strokes properly, without wrecking their stroke Appearances. But that tool can only cut one path at one point at a time–completely inadequate for cutting multiple paths at once.

Illustrator is the only mainstream vector drawing program that STILL–after 20 years of “development”– does not provide a proper cutting tool.

JET

By: erica

erica — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:06:53 +0000

Hi Josh,

Just a thought: if the artwork you are trying to crop are composed of all strokes, like for a crosshatch pattern for instance, then what you will want to do is select the stroke-only object or pattern, go to object>path>outline stroke, and then begin the tutorial. Hope this helps. I was having the same issue you encountered when trying to crop my crosshatch pattern.

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