P: Cropping using ruler different behaviour if via icon or via CTRL

@BrettN: Thanks for that info. Do I anywhere see this activation of "Constrain Crop" or is this hidden in the code behind? In LR, there is a checkbox for that (that also isn't remembered for every photo checked once, but another topic).

And were there product management reasons, the implement this straighten feature once with and once without "Constrain Crop"? May be I'm the exotic one with this strange expectation 😉

When you use the Level (Straighten) tool within Crop, it will enable "Constrain Crop" to prevent the creation of blank new areas around your image. When you use the Ctrl key to temporarily engage the Level, it does not enable the constraint. This behavior is similar to how Straighten functions with the Ruler tool. This is likely how it has always worked, even though I can only confirm as far back as PS2019. We can log a feature request to add the ability to modify the behavior for each, for example, by adding the Alt/Option key.

But if I crop but hold CTRL and draw the ruler line with this "other ruler"(?) the image is also rotated - but NOT cropped.

By @konrad79

Can you tell us why you're holding down the Control key when you drag to straighten the image?

Also, what do you mean by "other ruler"?

Jane