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3. Click the right-center handle of the crop marquee and drag left until the Note:
cursor feedback shows W: 10.250 in.
When you drag certain elements in the document window, live cursor feedback You can rotate a crop
(also called “heads-up display”) shows information about the transformation. When marquee by placing the
dragging a side crop marquee handle, for example, the feedback shows the new width cursor slightly away
of the area. from a corner handle.

You might need to zoom into at least 50% view percentage to achieve the exact
dimensions needed for this project.

Use the cursor feedback
to find the appropriate
measurement.

Click and drag the
marquee handle to
resize the marquee area.

Note:
At the time of this writ-
ing, a bug in the soft-
ware might cause rulers
to temporarily disappear
when you begin drag-
4. Repeat Step 3 with the top-center handle until feedback shows the area of ging a crop handle.
H: 10.250 in.

Note:
It might be helpful
to toggle off the Snap
feature (View>Snap),
which causes certain
file elements to act as
magnets when you move
a marquee or drag a
selection.

Note:

You can press the Escape
key to cancel the crop
Remember, the defined trim size is 10″ × 10″ for this ad. Anything that runs to the marquee and return to
page edge has to incorporate a 0.125″ bleed allowance, so the actual canvas size must
be large enough to accommodate the bleed allowance on all edges: the uncropped image.

[Width] 10″ + 0.125″ + 0.125″ = 10.25″

[Height] 10″ + 0.125″ + 0.125″ = 10.25″

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