{"id":44,"date":"2004-03-23T14:28:52","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T18:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2010-10-17T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T18:45:30","slug":"photoshop-tip-of-the-week-trim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/photoshop-tip-of-the-week-trim\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop Tip of the Week: Trim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/images\/postgraphics\/tutorials\/photoshop\/uncropped.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Uncropped Document\" \/>So you want to perfectly crop the document without damaging the graphics or transparency mask?<\/p>\n<p>Meet Trim. She&#8217;ll be your official haircutter.  She can trim away blank areas on top, bottom, left or right.  The image isn&#8217;t transparency? No problem, she has experiences in trimming away plain color.  Textured background, on the other hand, is out of her r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/images\/postgraphics\/tutorials\/photoshop\/trim.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Trim Dialog\" \/>1. Choose Image &gt; Trim<\/p>\n<p>2. In the Trim dialog box, choose either:<\/p>\n<div><b>\u2022 Transparent Pixels:<\/b> If there is no background image, use this one<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/images\/postgraphics\/tutorials\/photoshop\/cropped.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Cropped Document\" \/><b>\u2022 Top Left \/ Bottom Right Pixel Color:<\/b> If there is a background image in any of the colors, use this one. Top Left \/ Bottom Right are options to let you decide which corner to use as a start point for trimming<\/div>\n<p>3. If you don&#8217;t want to trim one or more of the sides, unselect the checkboxes in Trim Away.<\/p>\n<p>Your document is now perfectly cropped up.  No more wasted space and file size<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to perfectly crop the document without damaging the graphics or transparency mask? Meet Trim. She&#8217;ll be your official haircutter. She can trim away blank areas on top, bottom, left or right. The image isn&#8217;t transparency? No problem, she has experiences in trimming away plain color. Textured background, on the other hand, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.artofadambetts.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}