: Trimming an export area in Fireworks Is it possible to roughly select an area (with the Export area tool) around an image you are working on and have the bounding box automatically shrink to

@Megan533

That is because you are using the wrong tool. The tool name "Export Area" means you select an area of the image and ask Fireworks to export that whole area out.

If you want to use native tool, that will be export the selected object by using the slice tool.

This is all you need to do


First, select the object.
Right click to get the context menu
Choose "Insert Rectangle Slice"
Export the image


Sreenshot - cl.ly/image/0Q3b0k0Y2k2c

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@Chiappetta793

Not a direct answer, but to achieve the same result I use the Export Selection extension. that lets you select something and export with white or transparent backgrounds. Before that I used to copy & paste into a new document with the To New Document extension

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