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3. Click the right-center handle of the crop marquee and drag left until the cursor
feedback shows W: 8.750 in. Note:
When you drag certain elements in the document window, live cursor feedback (also If rulers are not
called “heads-up display”) shows information about the tranformation. When dragging a still visible, choose
side crop marquee handle, for example, the feedback shows the new width of the area.
View>Rulers or press
You might need to zoom into at least 66.7% view percentage to achieve the exact Command/Control-R.
dimensions needed for this project.

Click and drag the
marquee handle to
resize the marquee area.
Use the cursor feedback
to find the appropriate
measurement.

4. Repeat Step 3 with the bottom-center handle until feedback shows the area of
H: 11.250 in.

Remember, the defined trim size for this ad is 8.5″ 1 11″. Anything that runs to the
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:

[Width] 8.5″ + 0.125″ + 0.125″ = 8.75
[Height] 11″ + 0.125″ + 0.125″ = 11.25

34 Project 1: Composite Movie Ad