1 Reply Latest reply: Nov 1, 2010 3:12 PM by Bart Cross RSS

    Cannot use Trim command in CS4

    Buzz81 Community Member

      I am trying to use the Trim command in CS4 (I am using Vista 64-bit).   While I've used Photoshop for several years, I use it intermittently and am a complete novice.  I am trying to create an irregularly-shaped image (a map), and am trying to cut off the white areas around the map so that I can insert it into an Indesign document.   When I click Image-Trim, and click Bottom Right Pixel Color (which is a white area of the image), I then click the bottom right corner and NOTHING HAPPENS.   Sometimes, I get a message that I cannot do this because the "layer is locked," but there are no layers except the single background layer, and I have no clue about how to "unlock" this. 

       

      Earlier, I had clicked Image-Trim and the crop-like boundaries appeared around the white areas, but I was not certain what to do after that.   I pressed Enter, but nothing happened.   I closed the image and placed it into Indesign, but the white areas still appear.

       

      Is there a step by step description of how to do this?  It's obviously not doing what the Adobe Photoshop Help instructions say to do, which ends with "Select one or more areas of the image to trim away: Top, Bottom, Left, or Right" but doesn't say what to do after you've selected the area!!).

       

      Thanks in advance!