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

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Scaling and cropping with the bounding box

Scaling and cropping with the bounding box - Illustrator Tutorial

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

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Scaling and cropping with the bounding box

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to scale and crop a photo, using its bounding box, which is not necessarily my preferred approach, but I want you to know how it works. So the first thing I'm going to do is click on my photo with the black arrow tool to select it. And then I'll go up to the View menu and choose Show Bounding Box which also has a keyboard shortcut of Ctrl + Shift + B. Now notice that I can now rotate the image, by dragging slightly outside of its boundaries. I don't want to do that, however, so I'll press Ctrl + Z, or Command + Z on the Mac to undo that change. Instead, I'm going to scale this guy, either proportionally if you press the Shift key or non-proportionally if you don't press the Shift key. Now for the sake of demonstration, I'm going to duplicate this image, by pressing the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac, and dragging it like so. At this point you can see that the second image is selected; the first one is not. Now I'll go up to the…

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