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You can use guidelines and the Knife tool to crop the orange background image.

Click here to preview the cropped image.

  1. Click View menu, Guidelines Setup.
  2. Enable the Show Guidelines and Snap To Guidelines check boxes.
  3. In the list of categories, click Horizontal.
  4. From the Units list box, choose Pixels.
  5. In the box, type 1200.
  6. Click the Add button.
  7. Click OK.
  8. Click anywhere on the orange background image to select it.
  9. Open the Shape Edit flyout, and click the Knife tool.
  10. Hold down SHIFT, and position the Knife tool at the intersection of the guideline and the left edge of the orange background image.
  11. When the cursor changes to an upright position, click to mark the start of the cut line (do not release SHIFT).
  12. Position the Knife tool at the intersection of the guideline and the right edge of the orange background image.
  13. When the cursor changes to an upright position, click to mark the end of the cut line, and release Shift.
  14. Click Edit menu, Cut.
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