- [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 second option
up here in the Control Panel--
the one that lists the file name,
and I'll click on it.
And notice that I have all those options
that we saw represented by icons,
starting with Relink from CC Library,
and ending with Update Link.
So they're in a slightly different order,
but they're all there.
Finally, we have this command called Placement Options.
Go ahead and choose it
to bring up the Placement Options dialogue box.
Notice this Preserve item right here.
Currently it's set to transforms.
But you can change it to Bounds as well,
and I'm going to demonstrate the difference
between these two options in just a moment.
But notice one of the options
that this dialogue box is lacking is a Preview setting.
So the only way to preview what you've done
is to check out these little thumbnails right here,
as well as a description of what preserved bounds does.
But if you really want to see things,
then you have to click Okay.
And what you're going to see is nothing.
The reason is that the difference
between transforms and bounds affects images
when you relink.
So let's say I go ahead and Shift + Click
on this first image right there,
and then I click on the words Multiple Images,
and choose Relink,
or I can click on the Relink icon in the links panel,
and I go ahead and select the gorilla once again,
and I click on the Place button.
And because I have two images selected,
I'm going to have to select the gorilla twice in a row,
and click the Place button once again.
Notice the difference.
The gorilla on the right,
which is set to transforms,
is scaled to the same extent,
both horizontally and vertically,
that my face was a moment ago.
The guy over here on the right hand side
is scaled to fit the container.
So it's scaled by a different amount.
But that's not what I want,
so I'm going to press Ctrl + Z or Command + Z on the Mac
in order to undo that change.
And I'm going to go ahead and click on the second image here
and get ride of it,
because we don't need it anymore.
Now let's check out the other options
that are available to us,
by clicking on this stretched image right there,
then clicking on the file name in the Control Panel,
and once again choosing placement options.
Now I'll change the Preserve setting to Proportions Fit.
What that's going to do is scale the image,
so that it fits proportionally
inside that bounding box like so.
That means if I go ahead and scale the bounding box,
I'm going to scale the image proportionally along with it.
Here's something to bear in mind:
Now if you click anywhere inside this bounding box,
you're going to select the image.
So if I go ahead and drag this guy up here,
and then I click off of it,
and I click right there,
I'm not going to select the text;
I'm going to select the image,
because that bounding box is getting in the way.
Compare that to what happens if I
once again click on the file name
up here in the Control Panel,
choose Placement Options,
and this time I change Preserve to Proportions (Fill)
which is going to once again scale the image proportionally,
but now it's going to appear larger than its bounding box.
Notice that if I click outside the bounding box,
but still on the image,
I don't get it, I don't select it.
I have to click inside the bounding box
in order to select the image,
which I personally find to be quite confusing.
Alright, that leaves us with a couple additional options.
I'll go ahead and choose Placement Options once again.
Notice when either the first two options,
File Dimensions which we'll see in a moment,
or Proportions, either of those options are selected,
you've got this checkbox that allows you
to clip to the bounding box.
So if I turn it on,
then I'm going to go ahead and crop the image,
as we're seeing here.
The thing is you don't really have a lot of control
over the image placement.
If I return to the Placement Options command,
our only alignment option is this little grid right here.
And so for example, if I select this top-right point
inside this little alignment grid and click okay,
that's gonna go ahead and scoot my face over to the right.
Alright, so there's one other option that's available.
I'll go ahead and choose Placement Options again,
and this time I will choose File Dimensions,
which it ostensibly restored
the original dimensions of the the image.
I'll also go ahead and click on this center point there,
and I'll leave Clip To Bounding Box turned on,
and I'll go ahead and click Okay.
But because I've scaled this image so many times,
it's just going to stay scaled the way it was before.
However, it's no longer going to scale
along with the bounding box.
And those are your options
for scaling and cropping a placed image,
using its bounding box,
here inside Illustrator.