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Get a perfectly square selection in Preview.

By Joshua Schnell Thu, May 10, 2007 @ 10:34 AM

So you want to crop a portion of your image into a perfect square, and you don’t want to shell out the big dollars for Photoshop. Well your in luck. Preview lets you crop your images just like Photoshop would. All you have to do is drag your mouse over the are you want cropped while holding down the mouse button. The go to the Edit Menu, and Crop, or you could skip that step and hit the apple + K keys. Now for the simple tip. What if you want a perfect square. Well, just hold down the shift key while you make your crop selection. Talk about a handy little feature in Preview!

I stumbled upon this little tidbit this morning.

Joshua Schnell

  • Cody

    The new preview has disabled this feature. Is there another way around this? So annoying that they disabled it. Apple would.

  • Cody

    The new preview has disabled this feature. Is there another way around this? So annoying that they disabled it. Apple would.

  • BroMac

    As of 10.5.7 you can get a square selection by doing the following:

    Make a selection. Hold shift + command then grab one of the side dots (not a corner piece), when you move the pointer now the selection makes itself into a square.

  • BroMac

    Ah, I correct myself: you can do this with just shift.