CS6 PS Cropping Tool has many problems for working professionals...

I'm curious to hear back from any of the folks who initially didn't care for the changes, but whom have been using it for months now...  Have you gotten used to the changes?

Now that I have some 8 months of daily/hourly Ps CS6 use under my belt, with the settings for the crop tool I've chosen, I have to say I've come to anticipate its behavior, and I find it no problem at all to use.

-Noel

I completely agree. This is the worst Photoshop Upgrade ever! and I've used it since 2.0  I crop images all the time, and the crop image is truly painful and awful.

For example it pretends to give you a classic mode. But it doesn't even remember your preference for choosing classic mode, so almost every time you go back into it you have to push the P key which supposedly puts it in Classic Mode if it doesn't put you in the Path tool instead.

So select crop using the C key. Now the crop area shows. Try and crop, but it moves THE WHOLE image around. It moves the image on the canvas, rather than moving the cropping region on the image, keeping the canvas in the same place.

Then if you get your region selected and hit the return key (which should make the crop action happen) and then hit cmd-S it says "Crop the image before saving?" I already said to crop it. So you have to hit the return key twice.

Oh man I hope this isn't a sign of things to come, like some new product manager who wants to "leave their mark" on Photoshop. I am reverting to CS5.

It sure would be nice if this tool was brought back to the efficient useful form it was in CS5 - Messing around with this single feature has prevented me from actively getting into PS CS6, and I own it @home and just got it @work!

"But it's water under the bridge I think." I think not, AFA the total frustration that overcomes serious users of a software product that has been doinked around with for no real good reason (yeah, MHO after 16 years of professional use).

"Please make the classic mode operate truly like the old crop tool. Please."

Sounds like a simple, reasonable request to me - it will most likely be ignored.

Oh, and I still want my little 'active window' red X back...

CS6 is a downgrade - NOT an upgrade.

The CS6 Crop Tool sucks. Fix it.

While I realize that the new crop tool has some new features that some people might find useful, I would very much like to have the original crop tool back. It was so much easier to use. I've been working with the new crop tool for several months now and I have figured out how to make it work a little better for me, but it is still slower and clunkier than the old tool. I especially hate the selection always being there while the tool is active.

The old tool was elegant. It required less steps to crop. The new "features" of the new crop tool require more steps and make the workflow much less efficient.

Please make the classic mode operate truly like the old crop tool. Please.

You're not alone; when Photoshop CS6 first came out a lot of people echoed this sentiment.  But it's water under the bridge I think.

Beyond a suggestion to try to get used to the new Crop Tool for a while (time helps), have you tried using the Perspective Crop Tool as your default?  It works a lot like the Crop Tool used to work.  Just remember to use the handles in the middle of the sides and not the corners.

-Noel