You can then press the Command and K keys (or choose Crop from the Tools menu) to trim away the unwanted parts. If you want to trim away parts of a PDF file in Preview, go to the Tools menu and choose Rectangular Selection (instead of Text Selection) and then drag the cursor around the area of the file you want to use.
Including larger images as placeholders may harm your application. (As an alternative, you can also click on Tools in the Preview menu bar and choose Crop.) It will be enlarged and blurred, so a very small image (10px or less) is recommended. Click and drag the blue dots on the corners and center of the outlined box on the screen to adjust the selected portion of the image and then press the Command and K keys to delete everything outside dotted lines. To crop a photo or graphic open on your screen, you must first select the area of the image you want to keep.ĭrag the mouse cursor over the part of the photo you want, which creates a dotted line around the area. You can crop photos, graphics and PDF files right in Preview, the Mac’s built-in image-editing and viewer program. This tool is available for any mac users so even the earliest versions of Mac owners can use it. How do you crop an image in the Mac Preview program? I don’t see a cropping icon in the tool bar. Apart from using the Photo App for Mac to crop photos, you can also use the underrated Preview App to crop your photos.
