unable to crop in preview

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unable to crop in preview

Using Ventura 13.6.6 on Mac Pro. I want to crop a square image to a circle, but cannot find the crop icon and the crop option of command-K is greyed out in the Tools menu. I'm sure I was able to do this before. Please help. Thanks

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Apr 26, 2024 3:59 AM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Apr 26, 2024 10:30 AM in response to eobarun

You should be able to do it this way:

use the View menu to show the editing toolbar
use the left-most menu item with the dashed outline in the editing tools bar to select a circular section the image,
then copy the section with ⌘C,
Now go the File menu and select "New image from the clip board"

And you will have new image with a transparent background around the circle.

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Answer 2

eobarun Author

Level 1

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Apr 28, 2024 1:47 AM in response to léonie

Thank you! And After selecting the image, the crop icon appeared as it used to do before! It would be nice to have a Circle as an option, in addition to the Eliptical option.

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