Gobe Productive User's Guide - Cropping an Image

- Working in the Image Processing environment
- Image Processing tools and plugins
- Cropping an image
- Deselect and unfloat a selection
- Placing images in other documents

# Cropping an Image

If an image is too large or contains a lot of extra space, you can crop the image to a smaller size. Cropping is a good way to remove excess white space or background in an image.

## To Crop an Image

1. Use one of the selection tools to select the portion of the image you wish to keep. The most commonly used selection tool for this purpose is the Marquee tool . The Marquee Tool changes the cursor to display a crosshair with which you can then draw a box around the area of the image you want to select. The other selection tools are the Magic Wand , Lasso , and the Find Color tool . For more information, please see the Image Processing tools and plugins topic.
2. The selection is identified by a border of black and white dashes.
3. Select Crop from the Image menu. The image area outside the selection is removed from the image and the image size is shrunk to the selected portion.

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