From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Drawing a border around an image

Drawing a border around an image - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Drawing a border around an image

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to draw a border around an image because it's not the least bit intuitive, and I'll also show you a fun trick for colorizing a photo using a fill. So let's say I want to crop this image a little bit, any time you want to crop using the bounding box, then you want to start things off by clicking on the file name up here on the left side of the control panel, choosing placement options, and then just go ahead and change preserve to file dimensions and turn on clip bounding box, and then click ok. Now any time you drag that bounding box you're gonna end up cropping the image. Alright now at this point I want to hide the bounding box so I'll go up to the view menu and choose hide bounding box, or again you can press control shift B, or command shift B on the mac, and now let's say I want to assign a stroke around the outside of the image, then I would go up to the window menu and choose the appearance command to bring up my appearance panel…

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