Cropping Rotated Image should offer to rasterize it to have the cropping frame orthogonal
When I select an image layer, rotate it, and then want to crop it to make it fit into a spot, the crop shows up square instead of following the rotated image. To my knowledge there isn't an easy way to crop a rotated image. I understand a lot of people are trying to crop square but I would love a checkbox in cropping properties that lets me have it conform to the rotation of the image.
IE: if an image is rotated 30 degrees, I want my crop bounding box rotated 30 degrees too.
Joseph La Mere
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Any image is a rectangular grid of pixels, and any image rotated is a rotated grid that Ai can only crop according to the rotation angle.
But since Crop rasterizes any image anyway (converting any linked image into a placed/embedded one), you can use Object > Rasterize command before calling Crop, to force the rotated image to basically become 'an unrotated image that looks rotated'. The only problem would be to pick a proper resolution that is enough to keep all the details in the image...
A specific formula for this should be New Resolution = Original Resolution × ( |cos θ| + |sin θ| ), where θ is the rotation angle in degrees... but we won’t calculate this each time, right?
So with a help of an LLM I made a simple script that parses a selection, skips all unrotated images, and rasterizes each rotated one using this formula:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/357xwrr6v6q64r9r3bcuu/rasterize_compensate_rotation.jsx?rlkey=l36rr6fmjgrmvo1mogda1at2c&dl=1
Please try it and comment back if it works.This is still a workaround. I think Crop should offer to do this automatically.
I upvote this — thanks!
