Inspiring

P: Crop tool moves guides

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
December 7, 2019
19 replies
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I'm gonna be blunt on this one...The new 2020 crop tool is an eye sore. Why the MASSIVE handles on the edges?
Additionally, when you have guides on an image, and try to crop to the guides, the crop tool changes to the 'move guide' tool and moves the guides instead of allowing the user to crop to the guides (which is why MANY of use use guides in the first place).
Why can't the move tool be the only tool that moves the guides. Why did that functionality get added to the crop tool as well?
Holy frustrations batman! Now i have to use the crop tool in elsewhere, and then move it to snap to the guides.

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olive11251

Known Participant

Did you find an answer to this? Version 25.4.0 the guides won't stay locked when I try to crop. I open each file, set the guides, lock them, and they STILL move when I trying to maintain a crop.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

I get it. You are trying to standardize image sizes by eliminating the crop tool. Please do this all at once rather than making it progressively more difficult to find. This will save time and frustration.

slimMedia

Participating Frequently

Great - It is fixed since the last Update!!!

slimMedia

Participating Frequently

Thank you! This should bi fixed, since the whole purpose of guides is eradicated. One sets guides for cropping points and not to be moved when hovering over them. Let's do ist like with the selection tool - when I hold down CMD I can move the guide.

jjwithersAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks!!

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J453

Legend

This should be fixed in the 21.1 update that went out last night.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

I use the crop tool in the classic mode, and crop from the center out, using the option key during the crop. Yes, the guides have to be locked in order for the crop tool not to move the guides, which is a pain. However, even with the guides locked, the final crop does not align with the guides, I guess because they are locked. (Which is the only way I can crop from the center without moving the guides) After the crop, it is difficult to tell if my crop was precise or not because the guides don't move with the crop. This is a constant work around, having to create boxes for "cropping guides" because the actual guides can't be used as guides on their own See attachments before and after crop.

ChristopherButler

Adobe Employee

I want to let folks know that I have a fix for this bug in the pipeline. Thank you very much for pointing it out and I apologize for the inconvenience.

We were trying to prevent an unwanted on-canvas auto-commit from happening when the user was really trying to click on a Guide to move it. Obviously we also made it harder to execute a Crop using Guides as a starting point.

With the fix you will need to hold the command modifier key down to move a Guide. This is as it was before, and it will restore the user experience you are missing.

In addition, if you have started a Crop and not committed it yet, and you attempt to grab a Guide far from the Crop handles (in what would normally be the "auto-commit click zone"), we still will not auto-commit the Crop, and instead will allow you to move the Guide. You should be able to see what will happen if you click by watching the cursor shape as you hold down modifier keys and move the mouse over various control points.

This change is currently being tested (with extra focus based on this feedback) and should be in an upcoming release.

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J453

Legend

Thanks. I've logged an issue for the engineering team