Photoshop :: Strange Crop Tool Behaviour
Jul 20, 2008
I am using CS3 under Vista and am using a Wacom Intuos tablet.
For no reason I can think of, the crop tool has started only extending itself into a rectangular shape covering about a third of any image I use it on. In other words, it is impossible to extend its area to the extent I want within, or co-terminous with, the image boundary - it will only go so far across and so far down. This applies to any image, whatever its shape and size.
I can't think of what might be causing this and would like to avoid a reinstall if I can.
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Feb 26, 2013
In the old days, one could just use the crop tool and, while drawing crop lines, check the perspective box if you found that you needed to change the perspective. With CS6 if you start with the crop tool, and find you want to change the perspective, you have to change tools to the new perspective crop tool. In the process, you have to tell the newly opened dialog box that you don't want to crop, to get to the perspective tool, which now has reset to its defaults. You've lost your cropping and you have to start over.
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Jul 1, 2013
I am a labtech at a community college and look after 48 mac pros in which the students use the entire creative suite. (I only mention this becuase any answers need to consider variations in system settings or photoshop settings. college students get into everything!)
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But the issue is when you select the crop tool and enter a custom constraint and crop
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The image size is sometimes a full 2 inches off of what you set as a crop?! I havn't run into this before
[I do know you can use the drop down box and use {size and resolution} but I want to know why it doesnt work under custom and unconstrained]
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May 28, 2007
using the crop tool to highlight a picture and crop the sides?
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Oct 1, 2012
Just recently upgraded from Photoshop CS5.5 64bit to Photoshop CS6 64 bit. Crashes when using burn tool, crop tool, or dodge tool?
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Jun 2, 2008
when I select the crop tool, my image disappears during the entire crop process. I can only see the image in the preview pane. Why is this happening? I am using the most current version of Lightroom, and I am on a PC.
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Aug 4, 2012
I am missing a crop tool which can rotate the crop rectangle. Similar to photoshop's tool. I found no way to rotate the crop rectangle in gimp. How do you cut out something from an image if it needs to be rotated while cropping? I tried rotating first then cropping but it does not give me enough precision so I end up with transparent areas at the border.
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Sep 15, 2012
How do I set the crop tool in Lightroom to crop only one aspect at a time (e.g. - vertical). Right now all crops do a vertical and horizontal at once.
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Oct 25, 2004
I am having a problem with the crop tool. It will not crop the area I want; it goes to a point and stops. It's as if it has a mind of it's own and I can't direct it. I thought it might be the mouse so I took it apart and cleaned it, and then I put a different mouse in. It still does the same thing.
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Aug 12, 2013
I have CS5 for Mac. The crop tool from the left vertical tool bar mysteriously disappeared.how to get it back...
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Jan 19, 2013
How can I resotre the Crop Tool Icon to the Tool Box? It suddenly disappeared but is still in the Enhance Menu
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Oct 17, 2012
My crop tool has vanished from my tool bar. How do I find it and put it back?
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Nov 7, 2008
In previous versions of PS when you opened the curves adjustment pallette (or added a curves adjustment layer) you could click-point-drag your mouse cursor over areas of the image to reveal where on the curve those luminance values resided. With CS4 I cannot seem to make this happen. Whatever tool is enabled in the toolbar remains active and the usual eyedropper does not appear, nor are the values revealed on the slope of the curve.
Ok.. if I hold the Ctrl key down with my left hand (and hold the phone with my shoulder instead) I do get feedback on the image luminance value. But I also seem to keep unintentionally adding points on the curve when all Im trying to do is determine the luminance range of the subject area.
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Oct 27, 2008
With previous versions of Photoshop, when an RGB image in a given RGB colourspace was converted to CMYK by choosing Mode -> CMYK, it would convert to whatever CMYK was set as the Working Space in the Color Settings. With CS4 there's a warning dialogue that appears that makes one wonder if CS4 is behaving differently. It now says:
"You are about to convert to CMYK with no color profile. This may not be what you intend. To choose a profile, use Edit > Concert To Profile".
The resulting CMYK would certainly *have a profile* as it's the default selected in the Color Settings > Working Spaces menu. It's the same as if I had a CMYK file and selected Mode > RGB. This would convert from CMYK to whatever default RGB space is set in the Working Spaces menu. Yet from CMYK to RGB there is no such warning. Why not... the same logic would seem to apply.
I think the warning just confuses to user and makes them think an error's about to occur. A more appropriate warning might be:
"You are about to convert to your default CMYK (Color Settings > Working Spaces). This may not be what you intend. To choose another profile, use Edit > Convert To Profile".
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Jan 22, 2008
I've been using the crop tool without any knowledge of the little boxes you can fill in to restrict its WxH dimensions. I always wanted my crops to come out at a 2:3 ratio and could never get them perfect since I was just eyeballing it.
So then I found the WxH controls and if I put "2 in" for width and "3 in" for height, my image will come out as desired, no scaling of the image, but with the unfortunate side effect that my DPI has been changed, which causes problems for me later on. Now if I put "2 in" x "3 in" and then specify 72dpi in the "resolution" field, it will actually scale my image which is not what I want either. Now if I put "2 px" by "3 px" of course it will massively scale my image, which again is not what I want.
What I want is to re-crop my image to a 2:3 ratio, WITHOUT scaling, AND without modifying DPI. Is this possible with the crop tool? It seems that my WxH numbers are required to have units after them and I don't want any of those units (inches, px, mm, etc). I want unitless cropping, basically cropping by ratio. Does this make any sense?
I have a work-around which involves batch resetting all my DPI's at the end of the session. But that adds another step to my workflow which is not a very elegant solution.
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May 23, 2010
I've got AutoCAD LT 2010 running in Windows 7 under Parallels 5 on my Macbook Pro core i7
I'm getting erratic behavior of the crosshairs when trying to draft. There are two independent problems, depending on which view mode i'm in:
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In 'Cristal' or 'Coherence' view the crosshairs move with a lag or delay as i move my mouse. I've seen other complaints about this on forums, but no working solution as far as i can see.
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In 'Window', 'Fullscreen' & 'Modality' views, the crosshair movement is initially smother and more responsive, but then i'm getting a weird erratic jog effect when i try to pan around the model (by holding down the middle mouse button and dragging.
Both of these problems are incredibly infuriating and make drafting in Parallels a misery. AutoCAD LT is supposed to be supported in Parallels now so I'd like to know if there's a way of getting around this horrible UI glitch.
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May 11, 2011
I want to create a rig with physics behaviour of a marionette. It should be able to behave the way you manipulate a real marionette in real (over their strings) inside the viewport. I found a guy who did this in maya. Here is the link to a video:
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...around minute 3:10 you will be able to see how I want it. Is this possible in 3ds max too ? Maybe the new one 2012 ?
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Sep 25, 2012
Ever since I upgraded to Photoshop CS6 and started to use the new crop tool, I get this quite interesting visual error and some artifacting.
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I didn't have the problem with the crop tool in the previous versions of Photoshop.
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Jul 9, 2013
I am having recent difficulty with the crop tool in Photoshop CS5. When I crop an image and hit enter it goes to a grey dot and NO IMAGE???  This has never happened before.
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Jun 1, 2009
The crop tool does not seem to work in conjunction with a slight rotation. I do not have this issue on my personal computer, only at my place of work, where honestly it's much more important that this function work. The machine I'm on is running XP32 SP3 with 4gb ram, intel proc. Dell machine. Nothing non-standard. I'm using PS CS3 and I believe it's the creative suite package. I know I've used this tool on other machines and at home without issue.       What causes this issue? A two step workaround is not a solution, because the tool does something unique. This is akin to the image size dialogue being broken for me. It's an integral tool and I need it.       The second issue is one that I haven't seen mentioned at all: when using the perspective function of the crop tool, the final image ends up misaligned from the intended crop. For example, if I took an image of a house that was slightly skewed and lined the top and left sides of a crop box with the edges of the house, checked the perspective box, moved the handle in the lower left in to adjust perspective, and then hit enter, the top and left of house will have shifted a large amount away from the top and left of the crop. In effect this gives me a wrong crop. I've never seen this before.       I've tried "ctrl, alt, shift" to reset the prefs and it does indeed reset the prefs, but does not fix the problem. I've tried deleting the prefs files manually in my profile, which does indeed reset the prefs as well,
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May 25, 2007
But I need to know the steps to using the Crop Tool.
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Dec 4, 2005
everytime i go to use it (which is alot of the time) it won't go in 'all' directions.
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May 7, 2005
I used the crop tool to get the smaller size but I tried to use the crop tool to drag over the image but it stopped half size of the image.
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Mar 5, 2009
What I want to do is have the crop tool set at a fixed dimension, WITHOUT resampling let's say I have a picture set to 72ppi, that's 8"x8". And I want the crop tool to be fixed at 150px by 90px, res: 72ppi. What is happening now is, the crop tool is dragging the entire span of the picture, and resampling my selection to the size I specified in the options bar above. I don't want that
What I want to happen is that when I click and drag, only a fixed 150x90px box appears, so that I can't make it any bigger than that...I have done it before....but for some reason I cannot find the option to turn of resampling, or for that matter the options for deleting the cropped out space or hiding it.
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Oct 22, 2005
I have never had any trouble cropping photos but now I can't seem to make the crop tool work. It has the corner boxes for adjustment but the boxes between the corners that allow me to stretch the selection are gone.
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Aug 21, 2012
I found out a way to handle and bypass the function so it works like in earlier versions.
1. First step is to change to classic mode (this is done in settings above the image a little "gear")
2. The second step is to change ratio to unconstrained.
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The third step is the tip!You know when you want to crop a landscape image of a portrait image and want to go from side to side.The problem was that I started to rotate a crop frame that was there by default... REALLY CRAPPY FEATURE!
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3. So here is the tip
Place your cursor is outside the picture Before you begin dragging, hold down shift.
Begin the dragging, then let go of shift, and "tada" the crop frame behaves as it should.
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Apr 29, 2013
CS6 - Mac OS X 10.7.5. With Crop tool selected and placing cursor outside of crop area to get rotation handles, image is not rotated but crops in pro. How can I get back the rotation facility?
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Nov 16, 2013
my crop tool has gone 'pale' on the list under 'image' and won't work. How can I get it back?
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Feb 14, 2013
When I use the new crop tool in CS6 to reduce a large portrait to a small one for the Web the image is way oversharpened.If I take the same photo and use Image Resize and use Billinear or Bicubic Best for Smooth I get much better results.
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Crop to 188px wide. Middle: Image resize with Billinear. Right: Image resize Bicubic Smooth.Never had this issue before with CS5. Is there a general resize method preference? I'm on Windows 7 64bit if it makes any difference.
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Dec 11, 2012
I have a crop tool preset I made in landscape orientation to size photos all the same for a data-merged book I do every year. With CS6 I noticed a new and annoying behavior; if I move the crop tool too far to the left, it automatically changes the crop area to portrait. If this is supposed to be a feature, it's a most unwelome one. If my crop preset is landscape, then that's what I want. I'd like to know if there is a way to disable this "feature".
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Sep 26, 2012
I’ve been using the new Crop Tool on some moderately large files (2GB range) that contain layers, SOs and big data. I use the crop command without resampling (just changing the aspect ratio) and without deleting cropped pixels.
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after the committing the crop, does the crop take so long to implement? No interpolation is taking place, no pixels are being altered… all that is happening is I’m changing the visible canvas area… yet PS churns away like it’s performing some complex task. I see this on both my work and home machines.
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