photoshop 2015 with artboards feature won't crop

Right click where it says "Artboardx" in your Layers pane, then click UnGroup Artboards. That will get rid of the Artboard and allow the Crop to work again.

I'm not sure if this will help. However, I had the same problem after an update. Every new file I created automatically created an artboard. What I did to get around this was to right-click on the Artboard text (eg. "Artboard 1") in the layers panel and select "Ungroup artboards".  I was then able to use the crop tool to crop my image.

Well thanks a lot Adobe: the CROP tool has got the COMPOSITION overview, while your good-for-nothing Artboard tool does what exactly?? How many hoops do we now have to jump when we're trying to get the composition right? Where's the Golden Ratio? Rule of Thirds? Nah, just disabled the whole crop tool for no good reason whatsoever... Why "fixing" what's not broken?

It's always a 1 minute job with old Ps and I can't believe now I have to scroll through forums to get the fastest way just to crop an image!

FFS I regret upgrading my Photoshop. Adobe should know VERY WELL that in UX nothing should be changed unless it's broken.
Glad that I'm not the only one find this very frustrating. I hope someone else will make an app better than Photoshop so I can get away from all this BS.

Some more as a student from a third world country the CC subscription plan is damn expensive. They should impose different pricing for different countries.

I  personally love art boards. But I still don't understand why the crop function doesn't work anyway.

What am I trying to do? I want to crop and delete layers inside one of the art boards inside my project to save file size. But nope. Doesn't work. I guess that's too complicated.

Work around is to copy layers paste into a new PSD document that isn't an art board. crop and deleted then drag the elements back to the art board document.

Glad to know I'm not the only one infuriated by this. This was supposed to be a 5-minute task, but now I'm digging through forums to... CROP AN IMAGE!! I hope Adobe has some sort of algorithm that picks up keywords like "awful", "horrible", "unbelievable" in their support forums, so they can put their attention on the features that are really causing their core followers to seek other solutions.

But you know, I have these kinds of issues with Apple as well, so, I guess that's life. $450 to replace a spacebar on the new MacBook Pro. -_-

this is seriously infuriating to the point that i'll just use sketch in the future. thanks for saving me the monthly fee!

you can export artboards to files but you lose your guides.

horrific UX

My solution is here. If you have a file with artboards

From file menu / Export / Artboards to files

From the pop up menu dis select Include Background in Export,

File type PSD

Check Export options:

Dis select Preserve Artboard

Then RUN

This creates new PSD files from each artboard. If you have 2 artboards in the file you will end up getting new 2 PSD files.

Which you can open and use CROP or MARQUEE tools.

For example remove background layer and crop a logo and save it as PNG with transparency. I was not able to do that

with artboards. Not sure how you can do that with Artboards. There is always a background. If anyone knows how to crop

transparent images from artboards please share.

Hope this helps someone.

Cheers

Matt

If I can manually resize an artboard and reposition my artwork within it, why can't I just use the crop tool to do all of that quickly like I always have?

"An expected behavior to one person is an unexpected waste of time to another."

I found the change irritating and yes it cost me time and money......thanks Adobe