Vector crop tool issues..... retains entire original size

[Robby Poole]

I am having issues with the vector crop tool.  I am doing some music graphics, and am forced to use what I have.

The original music graphic is "centered" on the page, so the music graphic has blank/unneeded space on with side. I am trying to remove this unwanted space from the music graphic, so I go to the Vector crop tool. The graphic is not a Vector graphic, it is a TIFF file. However, the pixel persona does not have a crop function. 

I crop the graphic, removing the blank space and position it where I need it. On the page. I add the supporting graphic next to it (a this vs. that kind of situation). I select both objects and associated text to export all of the elements as a TIFF (having many issues with Publisher crashing if using PDF). 

When I import into Publisher, all of the blank unneeded space is present in the original graphic I tried to crop down. Causing for the size to incorrect in Publisher.

Is there a way to "bake" in the crop? Is there a way for Designer to only select the cropped portion of my graphic when exporting?

 

Thanks in advance,

Robby

[Robby Poole]

Just to be clear with the export..... I need a single line of music examples, not an entire page. So I select the music and associated text and and export "Selection Only".

This is where for some reason the white space is exported in the final graphic.

Robby

[Old Bruce]

Just select the graphic, the TIFF file, in the layers panel and use the Vector Crop tool on it. It works.

It isn't clear what you are trying to achieve here, is it just the one stave or a few measures of the music notation that you want? Use the pixel persona and the selection tools to copy that piece. You'll probably have to rasterize the layer if it is an image layer. Then you can make a new layer with the stave and just export that in the export persona. 

[Robby Poole]

This is VERY bizarre.....

I just did what you said, and yes, it works. For some reason when I used the vector crop tool before, it cropped the image down. But when I selected the image with the move tool, it showed 2 bounding boxes on the single graphic. One that was the crop size, the second was the original length of the 2 bar music example (with a lot of blank space).

I am not sure what happened. Perhaps restarting the app fixed the issue? I don't know. But it is working now. Thanks for the advice.

And ultimately it is a single staff, 2 bars in length. It is next to another 2 bars of music showing differences and similarities.

 

Thanks again,

Robby

 

[Old Bruce]

The Vector crop tool doesn't remove the cropped off bits, it is non destructive. The copy paste routine only copies the selection area and so I would use that method to make my life easier with later stages of moving things around.

[R C-R]

To make a crop made with the Vector Crop Tool destructive so it removes the cropped off parts, you can right-click on the layer or use the Layer menu & choose "Rasterize." This also works with an "(Image)" layer.