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- [Voiceover] In this movie,



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I'll show you how to

scale and crop a photo,



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using its bounding box,



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which is not necessarily

my preferred approach,



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but I want you to know how it works.



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So the first thing I'm going to do



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is click on my photo

with the black arrow tool



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to select it.



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And then I'll go up to the View menu



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and choose Show Bounding Box



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which also has a keyboard

shortcut of Ctrl + Shift + B.



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Now notice that I can

now rotate the image,



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by dragging slightly

outside of its boundaries.



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I don't want to do that, however,



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so I'll press Ctrl + Z,

or Command + Z on the Mac



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to undo that change.



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Instead, I'm going to scale this guy,



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either proportionally if

you press the Shift key



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or non-proportionally if you

don't press the Shift key.



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Now for the sake of demonstration,



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I'm going to duplicate this image,



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by pressing the Alt key or

the Option key on the Mac,



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and dragging it like so.



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At this point you can see that

the second image is selected;



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the first one is not.



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Now I'll go up to the second option



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up here in the Control Panel--



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the one that lists the file name,



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and I'll click on it.



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And notice that I have all those options



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that we saw represented by icons,



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starting with Relink from CC Library,



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and ending with Update Link.



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So they're in a slightly different order,



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but they're all there.



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Finally, we have this command

called Placement Options.



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Go ahead and choose it



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to bring up the Placement

Options dialogue box.



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Notice this Preserve item right here.



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Currently it's set to transforms.



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But you can change it to Bounds as well,



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and I'm going to

demonstrate the difference



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between these two

options in just a moment.



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But notice one of the options



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that this dialogue box is

lacking is a Preview setting.



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So the only way to

preview what you've done



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is to check out these little

thumbnails right here,



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as well as a description of

what preserved bounds does.



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But if you really want to see things,



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then you have to click Okay.



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And what you're going to see is nothing.



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The reason is that the difference



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between transforms and

bounds affects images



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when you relink.



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So let's say I go ahead and Shift + Click



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on this first image right there,



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and then I click on the

words Multiple Images,



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and choose Relink,



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or I can click on the Relink

icon in the links panel,



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and I go ahead and select

the gorilla once again,



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and I click on the Place button.



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And because I have two images selected,



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I'm going to have to select

the gorilla twice in a row,



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and click the Place button once again.



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Notice the difference.



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The gorilla on the right,



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which is set to transforms,



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is scaled to the same extent,



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both horizontally and vertically,



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that my face was a moment ago.



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The guy over here on the right hand side



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is scaled to fit the container.



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So it's scaled by a different amount.



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But that's not what I want,



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so I'm going to press Ctrl +

Z or Command + Z on the Mac



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in order to undo that change.



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And I'm going to go ahead and

click on the second image here



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and get ride of it,



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because we don't need it anymore.



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Now let's check out the other options



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that are available to us,



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by clicking on this

stretched image right there,



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then clicking on the file

name in the Control Panel,



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and once again choosing placement options.



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Now I'll change the Preserve

setting to Proportions Fit.



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What that's going to

do is scale the image,



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so that it fits proportionally



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inside that bounding box like so.



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That means if I go ahead

and scale the bounding box,



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I'm going to scale the image

proportionally along with it.



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Here's something to bear in mind:



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Now if you click anywhere

inside this bounding box,



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you're going to select the image.



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So if I go ahead and

drag this guy up here,



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and then I click off of it,



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and I click right there,



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I'm not going to select the text;



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I'm going to select the image,



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because that bounding box

is getting in the way.



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Compare that to what happens if I



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once again click on the file name



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up here in the Control Panel,



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choose Placement Options,



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and this time I change

Preserve to Proportions (Fill)



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which is going to once again

scale the image proportionally,



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but now it's going to appear

larger than its bounding box.



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Notice that if I click

outside the bounding box,



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but still on the image,



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I don't get it, I don't select it.



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I have to click inside the bounding box



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in order to select the image,



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which I personally find

to be quite confusing.



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Alright, that leaves us with

a couple additional options.



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I'll go ahead and choose

Placement Options once again.



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Notice when either the first two options,



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File Dimensions which

we'll see in a moment,



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or Proportions, either of

those options are selected,



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you've got this checkbox that allows you



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to clip to the bounding box.



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So if I turn it on,



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then I'm going to go

ahead and crop the image,



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as we're seeing here.



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The thing is you don't

really have a lot of control



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over the image placement.



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If I return to the

Placement Options command,



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our only alignment option is

this little grid right here.



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And so for example, if I

select this top-right point



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inside this little alignment

grid and click okay,



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that's gonna go ahead and scoot

my face over to the right.



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Alright, so there's one other

option that's available.



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I'll go ahead and choose

Placement Options again,



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and this time I will

choose File Dimensions,



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which it ostensibly restored



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the original dimensions of the the image.



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I'll also go ahead and click

on this center point there,



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and I'll leave Clip To

Bounding Box turned on,



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and I'll go ahead and click Okay.



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But because I've scaled

this image so many times,



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it's just going to stay

scaled the way it was before.



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However, it's no longer going to scale



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along with the bounding box.



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And those are your options



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for scaling and cropping a placed image,



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using its bounding box,



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here inside Illustrator.