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How does one CROP a Image Layer and or a Folder/Layer?

I don't mean scale or position (translation.) I want what I have to stay the same size and position.

I want to cut/crop off extraneous art/images and delete portions of them.

Can this be done in ASP5?

You could draw a quick mask layer to eliminate things you don't want to see, kind of like a "garbage matte" when FX work was still done on optical printers and animation stands. It can be rough, it just needs to exclude the trash.

I believe making is what you'll want to look at...

great---i hope it is as simple as making a garbage mat in FCP

Group layer with the image layer and the mask below it (order not strict, but much easier that way - some idiosycracities), set the layer for masking(reveal all? Hide all? Can never really remember, masking has always messed me up and I have a block on remembering it proper), image layer to "mask this layer", vector to mask and hide. Not too bad.

But similar to the old school way. Once you get the order of setting up mattes, your good. It's like bipack, just easier.

I thought I had discovered a way to easily crop in Anime Studio Pro, but I can't rediscover it, so maybe I was dreaming. I thought I had accidentally cropped the edge of a photo a few weeks ago. Maybe not.

Looks like masking is the way to go. Ugh, I avoid masks because I find them hard to understand in Moho/Anime Studio Pro. I keep making the same mistakes over & over.

you're making a mistake if you don't use masks
masks are one of the usefuls things in video and animation tools.
and anime studio is REALLY powerfull in masks. you can make a normal vector layer, say AS it's a mask, apply a blur-layer-effekt and you got a blurred mask.
extrem cool for light and other effects

Oh, I use 'em .... when I must. After over an hour of messing with the masking example Genete showed me [in a thread with a subject line called only, "masking"], I still couldn't make it work as described. I wasn't sure if that was because I was masking an image, or because there's a bug, or just because it's quite confusing. I must have double-clicked the same 3 layers 1000 times.

Some masking does not show correctly in preview. You must RENDER to see the correct results in some cases.

-vern

That may be what was happening. Thanks for that! I also re-learned something I forgot since, oh, 2 years ago: masking doesn't show up properly while one of the layers being masked, or the mask layer, is selected. I must select the masking group layer, or a layer outside of that.