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remoran
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November 23, 2024
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Re: Rectangle tool not working like before

  • November 23, 2024
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Adobe has lost it's way. The rectangle tool worked. Now it's complexified. I want to crop an image. Back in the day, you drew a rectangle and you did the crop/ Now it's automatically filled and one had to screw around with it to try to make it work. Good design is invisible. You simply do. I build front ends for systems so I know a little bit. Complexification is easy, simplification is not. Tell the front end guys to channel Jobs. Don't make me think. 

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    jane-e
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    jane-eCommunity Expert
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    November 23, 2024
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    The rectangle tool worked. ... I want to crop an image. Back in the day, you drew a rectangle and you did the crop/ Now it's automatically filled

    By @remoran

     

    The Rectangle tool is one of the Vector Shape tools and has never been used for cropping an image.

     

    There are two ways to crop:

    • Rectangle Marquee tool followed by Edit menu > Crop
    • Crop tool

     

    "Back in the day" there were no Shape tools. They were first introduced in 2000 with Photoshop 6.0.

     

    I've branched your post from a solved thread posted six years ago in 2018 to its own thread.

     

    Jane

     

     

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