There is no “Save As” option in the File menu and the Save option just saves the changes to the original image. If you can’t see the Toolbar in Preview, click the View menu, choose Show Toolbar option. If you can’t see the selection tools, you need to click the Show Markup Toolbar button at the toolbar or click to open the View menu from the Apple top menu bar, then choose Show Markup Toolbar from the drop down menu.

You have to select the area on the image to crop, otherwise you can’t select Crop under the Tools menu. Some Mac users can’t find the Crop option or when they go to the Tools menu, the Crop option is greyed out. Optionally you can choose a different name, format or location in the Export As dialogue. Or choose File > Export… to save it as a new image file. Click Crop button or go to top menu and choose Tools > Crop to complete.įinally click File menu, choose Save to save the cropped version of the image and overwrite the original picture. After that, the Crop button shows up in the Markup Toolbar. Draw on the image to select the region of the photo you like to keep. If need, you can choose Elliptical Selection or Lasso Selection. The Rectangular Selection tool is selected by default. Click to choose a selection tool from the top left corner above the working area of Preview app. The Markup Toolbar displays below the default Toolbar in Preview app. Click the Show Markup Toolbar button at the toolbar or click to open the View menu from the Apple top menu bar, then choose Show Markup Toolbar from the drop down menu. The selection tool is invisible by default. Firstly you need to select the part of the image that you want to keep, then crop out the unselected part, finally go to save the changes to existing file or save as a new image file to your computer.ĭouble click the picture in Finder to open it with the Preview app which is the default image viewer and editor for Mac. There are mainly three steps to crop an image with Preview app on Mac.

In this article, I will show you how to quickly crop images, photos using Preview app on Mac with additional troubleshooting tips for those who can’t crop images with Preview on Mac.

In a related post, we discussed how to blur photos in Preview on Mac so as to protect our sensitive information when we share the photos. I use it daily for image cropping, photo blurring, etc. You can use it to view images and PDF files, play videos and even edit some types of files. Preview is the default image viewer and editor on Mac.

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