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Crop tool doesn't work properly

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January 22, 2019
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Hi,

Trying to get the crop tool to select a certain pixel area from an image. It used to work like this but now when you pick a certain crop area of the image, it crops it to that pixel dimension size while changing the actual object size in the crop area. That's not what I want. I have several images where the object is in different parts of the frame and I want to select a portion of that image around the object to the same size in each. For example, I have a 5000x3000 pixel image, I want to crop out 500 pixel square from that image, and have the same number of original pixels (ratio of pixels per inch) match from other images. I cant do this anymore. Even if I try to use the tool to select the proper size around the image, it seems to change the image size inside the crop in each image differently. When it try to select with the W x H x Res box to have a presized box appear, it doesn't do this. It just takes what is in the box that is selected and resizes whats in the box into the area specified in the tool. wth? Why is this so much more difficult than a few weeks ago before the updates??????

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Anonymous

Yeah I had this same problem, looks like you can get it back to normal by selecting 'Ratio' from the dropdown and then in the options bar hit 'Clear' and that should get you back to it working normally.

Stargazer on ARM

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EDIT:

I have to take it all back, it works perfectly fine! The person who was supposed to free the image from the background messed up and left a few stray pixels spread out close to the edges of the image border, and with the high resolution and all it was impossible to see they too were selected. Clearing the image from all stray "invisible" pixels from the selecetd layers visible ends to the image borders solved the problem.

So I'm really sorry for the slander, but it took me somet time to figure it out. This time (for once I might add) it was on my end, and the crop-to-selection feature obviously works perfectly!

Sincerely yours,
Stargazer

Original post (debunked by me, see above):

I have the same problem and I'm sorry to say none of these solutions seems to work (thanks for trying though 🙂 ).

I have got some 40 images of slightly diferent sizes freed from the background for a slide show projection, and I want to crop them to make them fit tighter around the edges and then resize them to 1080 pxl height. It takes me forever to do that manually isntead of auto-fitting the crop tool on the edges of the marked selection, and you can't record a repetitive action script to repeat the procedure (the recorded manually cropping size dosen't fit the selection of the next image).

From time to time I'm spending more time trying to make things work by trying out all these awkward bend-yourself-over-backwards workarounds and time consuming fixes than actual editing, sometimes they kind of almost solves the problem, sometimes they don't and sometimes they make things worse giving you an H of a bad time trying to get back to were you started.

I'm running on Windows by the way which is quite an ordeal in it's own for the same reasons, so I already have all the problems and complicated workarounds I can handle.

Sincerely yours,

Stargazer

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paulr69358578Author

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I tried the 2017.1.6 version of photoshop CC and it doesn't have the same issue. I just tried the same exact method in 2019 20.0.2 and it produced the effect I mentioned before.

Trevor.Dennis

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Sounds like a bug then. Go report it on the Feedback site, and come back and give us the link, and other folk will add a me too.

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The feedback site is actually followed by Adobe staff like Jeff Tranberry. There is not much chance the message will get back directly from this thread. A good catch though. Nice one.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

I felt sure I'd be able to work this out, but I totally failed to make it work your way.

If someone with an earlier version could test this please?

I have a long winded workaround you could maybe assign some of to an action.

Make a new Guide layout like so. The settings will remain unless changed, or you could save it as a preset, and/or make it an action.

With Snap turned on, drag out a selection which will snap to the guides.

With any selection tool selected, drag your selection to the required crop area

...and go Image Crop

If you have several of these to take from the same area, I guess you could undo after saving, but another way would be to make an action that copies the selection to a new layer; and duplicates the layer to a new document.

Meanwhile, I does feel like you have discovered a bug, but we need someone to test on a previous version before reporting it.

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