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photoshop 2015 with artboards feature won't crop

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September 30, 2015
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I upgraded to Photoshop CC 2015, created a new logo, and I can't get the crop tool to work. The artboard, named Artboard1, contains the four layers.

When I select the area around the logo and try to crop it, nothing happens.

I also tried to use the Trim tool to remove all space based on transparent pixels, and nothing happens.

I tried going back to crop settings in use before the 2015 update, but still no luck.

Any ideas?

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Correct answer Chetna Srivastava

Hi RickRicholson,

That is the expected behaviour.

Once you have setup artboards, your image is now using an infinite canvas and thus, the crop tool doesn't do anything.

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ryanc76533523

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I can't get any of these suggestions to work. I do web development and need to define a space using the marquee and... well... CROP IT! I've tried changing the crop settings, I've tried 'Ungroup Artboards', and numerous other things I've read in forums. This makes no sense to me... are you seriously telling me I can't crop out a section of an image?!

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ksmerryman

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Look at my pic of Carrie Fisher above, I gave steps

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martins50137295

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Doesn't work for me. "Classic mode" is grayed out.

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shawnstarr

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When i bulk Export my artboards...there is a ton of extra space around each exported asset. Find out that extra space was caused by pixels hidden off the artboards. VERY CONFUSING!!! Had to manually go back and recrop all the assets that were exported VERY TIME CONSUMING.

What am I missing here...there has to be a way of doing this better.

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clutchDM

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This wasted like 30 minutes of my time. Very frustrating. I was trying to crop, and it cropped the artboard, but then when i would try to save out the image, it would save out the full sized layer, not the cropped dimensions of the layer.

I figured out that if you right-click on the artboard in the layers panel, and select "ungroup artboards", it looks like it reverts it back to the old way, so I can save it out as I'm expecting it to.

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mattb76431444

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Artboards might seem good on paper, but they're a total waste of time and as others have stated - just caused me extra work trying to figure them out and get them out of the way.

현민공50206723

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Now we have to stick to our original canvas size that we made in the beginning?

The artboard thing makes it difficult to change size of our artwork flexibly

markc56678493

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I have to add that I am not at all happy about not being able to crop easily. How can this have gone so horribly wrong. As a web designer I need to be able select an area of the design a crop for exporting. Adobe, sort this out!

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benatjawbone

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I have the same issue. I just want a simple way to 'crop' a portion of an image and save it out. In the moment. I don't want to setup slices and I don't want to change my artboards. I just want to cut out and save a portion of an image. Old crop tool was great for that, and I don't understand why it needs to be conflated with artboards. It's very confusing, I agree.

In my mind (same as Rick), I should be able to 'crop' across a portion of a view, regardless of whether there are artboards involved.

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Admirable_face0D4C

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If I have artwork that takes up a smaller area of the artboard, I can resize it by selecting the artboard in Layers and resizing it.

I have 5 icons in a row, that take up 279x39 pixels and the artboard has been resized to these proportions (as crop isn't for artboards, as mentioned above).

When I export > Save for Web, should my final artwork be resized? As in the preview and when it's saved the files it the original (larger) proportions.

Cheers,

Steve

ChristopherButler

Adobe Employee

Chetna is correct. The Crop tool is not relevant for artboard documents. To change the size of your artboard, use the artboard tool.

We'll be disabling it in future releases.

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Dazzling_view16B8

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But that's crazy. If I'm working on a design, and decide I just like one part of it - In the past I'd crop and keep working. Can you explain how someone now does that?