Constrain crop to image

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August 17, 2021
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Is there a way to constrain the crop tool in Ps to the bounds of the image.

It seems this was either (a) possible, or (b) the only option in old versions of Ps.

I find it next to impossible to drag the crop box and keep it within in the image bounds. Admittedly I don't have a steady mouse hand.

Useful thoughts appreciated.

Thank you.

Windows

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Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

"(b) the only option in old versions of Ps'

Which option in particular you mean? Do you have very small image? Parhaps you can use some other crop technique involving numeric values, Image or Canvas Size or even selection?

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PhotogCdaAuthor

Inspiring

I may be wrong about the crop tool in older versions. I seem to recall, at the very least, that if you wanted to drag the crop box around, or draw it yourself that there was a stop at the image bounds (edge of canvas). Maybe you could go further, but there was at least a stop at the edge.

It seems there isn't a way to constrain the crop box to the bounds of image/canvas. That's unfortunate. It was never a problem in the past, which is why I'm perplexed about it now. It started to become a problem in the last couple iterations of Ps when they changed the crop tool to make the border of the box wider (stupid) and put on those stupid, huge handles. Since then, cropping is a complete nightmare. Before that, no issue at all.

barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

When you first click on an image with the crop tool it automatically is set to image bounds (unless you have an area selected, in which case the crop area will be the same size as the selection).

If you drag a crop handle towards the center of an image the crop area will be within image bounds.

But there is no way to force the crop area to stay within image bounds.

jane-e

Community Expert

Hi @PhotogCda

Do you mean that you don't want to be able to crop to make the canvas larger? I've been cropping to make the image larger for as long as I can remember. I am not sure, though, if it goes back as far as PS3.0 when I started. I don't know of any way to stop this.

If you mean something else, please clarify.

~ Jane

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