Mar 08, 2019 Preview. Even though we’re proceeding to our second alternative, there’s still no need to resort to a third-party app. Because, in addition to Photos, you can also use Preview for image cropping on Mac. Preview is another native Mac app that you can put to use to remove unnecessary elements from your pictures.
The preparation of OSXiOS Expert proposes a simple guide to show you how to crop photos with the Mac’s native Preview application in Mac OS X without using third-party app.
Cropping images is a vital editing function for each user, as it helps to improve your shooting, so as to eliminate the unnecessary parts or to focus on only a certain part of the picture.Although many Mac users use third party applications to achieve the purpose, even the native application Preview of OS X lets achieve a good result with ease.Here’s how to crop photos with the Mac Preview application.
Open Preview Application and Select Crop
1 – First you need to open the image file that you want to crop using the Preview app natively in Mac OS X. You then need to open the toolbar of the editing tools, accessible with a simple click on the icon containing a small pencil shown followed.
Select The Crop Selection
2 – At this point you need to choose the Rectangular Marquee tool, which is usually set as the default choice.
Create an Outline and Press the Crop Buttom
3 – After selecting this tool, you can trace the outlines of the picture you want to crop. Finally, it is necessary to press the Crop button present on the top.
Cropped Image
4 – The image will be cropped and displayed immediately in a new window preview. Finally, you can save the new image already cut through the classic function File this under the heading.
Preview App Mac Crop Software
Mac Preview Crop Disabled
To reduce unnecessary part of an image or to improve the composition of an image cropping is an important function image editing function.
To crop a picture on macOS with preview tool follow the steps given below. Preview is an in-built tool in macOS to view the pictures.
Preview App Mac Crop Icon
- Open the picture that you want to edit in preview app on macOS.
- Click on Show Markup Toolbar button, it will open a toolbar for the different type of selections.
- Now select the Rectangular Section from selection tools, the default selection option is rectangular if you want to change it then you may change it to Elliptical or Lasso selection.
- Select the area which you want to crop.
- Click on Crop button, or you may also use the keyboard short cut Command+K to crop the picture.
- Go to File and save the cropped picture, or you may also use the keyboard short cut Command+S.
Last Updated: August 07, 2020