Let's give you a detailed analysis of how to create and use the cropping mark.
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Create and use the cropping icon of Illustrator (AI). Download the original. ai file at the end of the article.
The cropping Mark, also known as the cropping symbol, is a thin line that is cut along the graph edge when a document is printed. During cropping, the image is not cropped to the image boundary. On the contrary, the image is scaled back at the boundary.
The canvas line in the AI text block and the dotted line in the page tile do not work when exporting or outputting images. The software automatically finds the highest point and the lowest point on the left and right, and the output image is "top day. If you continue to operate on this image in Photoshop, we need to expand the canvas for it. If multiple images are created in the same AI document, but now we only need one or more images, the troublesome operation is to copy the image you want to the new text block, set the border, and then output it. Or output all the images and then crop them.
In fact, the canvas size is automatically set for a file exported from Illustrator by cropping the symbol. Trim the image we don't need, or enlarge the canvas of the image. Many operations are simplified.
Method 1: Use the rectangle tool to draw a rectangle and enclose your selected image. Then, choose "object"> "crop flag"> "make" to generate the four-corner line of the crop flag. When you output an image to another format, the software automatically outputs only the selected area. This method is suitable for output.
TIP:
1. It must be a rectangular image, which can be scaled down, adjusted to the height and width, but cannot be rotated.
2. The cropping symbols created in this method cannot be selected, moved, or changed.
3. If you think the created cropping symbol does not meet your requirements, you can choose object> cropping icon> release to delete the existing cropping symbol. Release does not mean deletion. Release restores the cropping symbol to the original rectangle.
4. In this way, only one set of cropping marks can be generated in the same document. That is to say, no matter how many rectangles you create, you can only choose one of them to make the cropped symbol. If the document already contains a cropping symbol, you can draw a new rectangle. When you create a new rectangle, the software automatically deletes the old cropping symbol to generate a new cropping symbol.
5. If you select the menu without selecting a rectangle for the above steps, the cropping symbol is made based on the size of the canvas. If you release this cropping symbol that does not select a rectangle, a rectangle without filling or alignment will appear.
Method 2: After creating a rectangle, select filter> make> crop icon to create a crop symbol. This method is suitable for creating a cropping flag for multiple pages.
TIP:
1. It does not need to be a rectangle, but the software automatically finds the lowest point of the graph's highest point, and the biggest point on the left and right, and produces the crop area of the rectangle.
2. You can select, move, change the color, trim, width, and other parameters for cropping symbols created in this method.
3. Using this method, multiple cropping symbols can appear in the same text block and coexist with the cropping symbols created in the first method. However, when you select to output the image, the default area of the software is the area selected by the first method of cropping.
4. Most importantly, the cropping symbols created in this method cannot automatically crop the area of the output image. That is to say. The cropping symbol produced in this way is a graphical image. In addition, please do not make the cropping symbols by yourself, that is, the troubles are not very standard. I don't think you will do this.
5. If you do not select a rectangle, you cannot create a cropping symbol.
Ctrl + K open the usual option in the software preset panel. Select "Japanese crop flag ". The Japanese cropping symbols are produced using the above method.
As shown in the following figure:
If you have read "AI paging collage full Guide", you will know how to create pagination in AI and use the first method to create the cropping symbol, it can only appear around one page (that is, the page you selected ). In this case, the second method should be used to create multiple paging cropping symbols, which will be convenient for printing in the future.
As shown in the following figure:
You may try to use the cropping symbol to export the image, and then you will experience its convenience.
All right, the above information is the detailed cropping Mark Creation and usage tutorials provided to the users of this software of Illustrator, as you can see here, I believe you are very clear about the production method. Then, let's try it by following the small series tutorial.
