Image Cutting:

[mechanick]

I use illustrator quite a lot to create adverts / logos etc. and am pretty much self taught and thus probably not what you would call an advanced user!

The problem I have relates to placing an image onto a background - if the image is too large for the backgound (thus hangs outside the black box) I cover it by placing a white box over the top - how do I just cut the unwanted section away, without distorting the proportions by resizing?

I've searched the help files to no avail - probably the answer to this is too simple! Requires some thinking outside the box, boom, boom! Thanks in advance

 

[jconingham]

You can either use a clipping mask or create a crop mark that will hide the exceeding areas when you save to another format, i.e. GIF, JPG, PDF...

 

[ERIXWORX]

you will still have the portion of the image that's outside your clipping area. CorelDraw (ew!) can clip a bitmap to an irregular shape, and get rid of the non-visible portion; can CS3? I'm most familiar with AIv10 and somewhat with CS2

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