The further drag, the greater the selection tolerance. Magic Wand : Lets you click and drag anywhere on the image to select a specific area.Selection : Lets you select a rectangular area on the image.From there, you can choose from two tools in the Inspector:

To use them, select an image on your Canvas and then double-click on it to enter the editing mode. The Mac app has a small selection of bitmap image editing tools. To help with this, you can reduce the size of your images by choosing Layer > Image > Minimize File Size. Reducing Image SizeĪdding lots of images into your document will increase its file size and slow the Mac app down. You can also drag images into Sketch and drop them onto existing image layers, or layers with image fills, to replace them. If you’ve resized and styled an image layer in your document, but want to replace the image itself, select it and choose Layer > Image > Replace…. To insert an image into your document, drag it straight from the Finder or Desktop, or choose Insert > Image… Replacing Images You can then press the Command and K keys (or choose Crop from the Tools menu) to trim away the unwanted parts.As well as adding image fills and images from data sources to existing layers, you can also add regular bitmap images into your Sketch documents. 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. (As an alternative, you can also click on Tools in the Preview menu bar and choose Crop.) 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. How do you crop an image in the Mac Preview program? I don’t see a cropping icon in the tool bar.

Mac photo preview cut out square