Artboard 1.6+ makes it easy to mask and crop your images with complex vector objects. Here’s how…
Final Image
Below is the final image we will be working towards:
Tutorial Details
Program : Artboard 1.6+ for Mac OSX Difficulty: Beginner Topics Covered: Image Browser and Intersect Estimated Completion Time: 10 minutes
Step 1
Open the Image Browser and drag-and-drop from the Browser to your drawing canvas to place your image. Using Artboard’s flexible drawing tools, draw any shape – from a simple rounded rectangle to a complex outline of the area you want to crop. Here we’ve used the Bezier Path [b]tool to draw an outline around the girl in the picture. We used a simple red stroke with no fill to better see the outline as we traced over the picture.
Step 2
To mask the image with your shape, hold the Shift-key and use the Select [s] tool to select both the image and the shape. Then click the Intersect icon on the Toolbar, or choose Graphic > Combine > Intersectfrom the main menu. An image that is masked still has the original image hidden behind the mask area and is non-destructive. You can double-click the image to reposition it or scale it within its bounding box. An image effects panel is also displayed. If you want to remove the mask, right-click the image and choose “Remove Image clipping path” from the contextual menu.
Step 3
An image with a mask can be permanently cropped to remove portions of the image that are hidden, thus reducing overall file size. Cropped images are resampled to the mask area. To crop a masked image, right-clicking the image and choose “Crop and resample image” from the contextual menu.
Final Image
Masking and cropping raster images in Artboard is as easy as 1-2-3! We hope you enjoy the simplicity of how it works just like the Boolean operations with any vector objects.
Hi Fernando,
The final image is the result from step #3 (the masked image). I’ve updated it so it is more clear that this is the final result of the tutorial, without the background and ribbon as in the front image. I hope that helps
- Jill
I think there`s a step missing – I’m totally new to image editing, and I can’t seem to move from Step 3 to the final image. Nor does your Youtube tutorial covers the matter.
Would you be so kind as to re-write this how-to in a “for dummies” manner? I’d really appreciate that.
Thank you for your time.
FD