I’d like to clarify this workaround as having two options. First, let me identify the three screen modes:
OPTION 1
[With Tabs unchecked in Preferences] Press the “F” key to cycle through these modes.
A - Floating windows WITH palettes, menus, or option bar (This is the mode with the bug - cropped image in the upper left hand corner)
B - Isolates one image file WITH palettes, menus, BUT NO OPTION BAR. (The cropping bug may also appear in this mode)
C - Full Screen Mode - isolates one image file WITHOUT any palettes, menus, or option bar (Unless you press Tab, then you will get palettes and menus, BUT NO OPTION BAR)
OPTION 2
If tabs are employed, then it’s a more preferred way to work, because you get the palettes, menus AND options bar. Let me explain:
Go to Preferences>Workspace. Turn on “Open Documents as Tabs” and “Enable Floating Document Window Docking”.
Now by pressing the F key, the screen modes are as follows:
A - Single image file WITH tabs for other open files at the top (just below the options bar), along with palettes, menus, and option bar. I don’t like this view because when the image is zoomed out enough to see the whole thing, I can’t move it around - it’s locked in the center, sometimes behind a palette.
B - Single image file WITHOUT tabs - along with palettes, menus, AND OPTION BAR (This is the mode I prefer to work in, because I can isolate one image, I get all my palettes, menus AND the option bar - very important, because here I can change all the attributes of the tool I’m currently using.
C - Full Screen Mode - isolate one image file WITHOUT any palettes, menus, or option bar (Unless you press Tab, then you will get palettes and menus, but NO OPTION BAR)
I’ve been a digital painter in Photoshop for about 18 years, so I’m approaching this from a painting perspective with a primary painting image on my Cintiq and reference images on my MacBook Pro monitor. Some people don’t like tabs and they want to see multiple windows open all at once. I like that too. Any window can always be undocked and then it’s a floating window again. But then when you cycle through the screen modes, the cropping bug will show up again.
For now, Tabs seems to be the best workaround for me. I hope this helps!
-Scott
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