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Elise_Claire
Inspiring
November 13, 2025
Question

Transparent Pixels Along Edge when Cropping to Full Width or Height

  • November 13, 2025
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Hello,

 

When cropping images to the full height or width of the image (or crop along any side of the original canvas), then a 1px semi-transparent edge appears. For dark images, this causes a light strip when flattening/saving as a new JPG.

 

For example, if I crop the image like this, going all the way to the left and right edges of the image:

 

Then a transparent strip appears along the left & right sides:

 

When flattened to save as a new JPG, it's still visible:

 

This doesn't happen if I check "Delete Cropped Pixels", but then I can't finesse placement after cropping. It also doesn't happen if I bring the crop handles in a few pixels from the edge, but it's very tedious to do that for the high volume I work with, it's much more efficient to let it snap to the full width/height of the canvas. I tried adding a black fill layer below, which helps a little, but there's still a visible line. 

 

Is there any other way to avoid this?

1 reply

Community Manager
November 13, 2025

Hi @Elise_Claire, thanks so much for reaching out!
I tried reproducing this on my end but haven’t had any luck. Could you let us know which version of Photoshop you’re using and, if possible, share a quick screen recording of the issue? That would really help us understand what’s going on.
Thanks a lot!
Alek

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Elise_Claire
Inspiring
November 13, 2025

Hi @Aleke ,

 

Sure! I've attached a screen recording, as well as the image file I used in the recording (I can provide additional image examples if needed). I'm using Photoshop 27.0.0 in the screen recording, but I've had this issue for a while and can also recreate it in version 26.10.0.

 

I think I just figured out a clue, though - in my recording, I was cropping to 2048x1024px. But if I crop to a 2:1 Ratio instead, there is no transparency. But I always use W x H x Resolution because I need to crop to specific pixel dimensions for my work.

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 13, 2025

Is there any resampling at any point in this? If not, is it still visible when you view at 100% ?

 

This happens when you have a floating layer (as opposed to a flat background layer), and the edge pixels are interpolated. With a floating layer, there are invisible transparent pixels outside the canvas, and they are factored into the interpolation.

 

In a flat background layer (Background in the panel, in italics) pixels outside the canvas boundary are not allowed.