Cropping tool in adobe elements 15 is difficult to use

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December 22, 2016
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Question :

I have downloaded a trial version of adobe element 15 to try it before buying.

the cropping tool is difficult to use.

is there any other way to crop .?

Further it leaves a water mark when a photo is cropped. Is this normal? does this happens only in trial version?

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99jon

Legend

For conventional action go to:

Edit >> Preferences >>General (tab)

Uncheck the box “Enable Crop Pre-Selection”

Click OK

On Mac OS Preferences are under the Adobe Elements Editor menu

ShivaniParihar

Adobe Employee

Hi,

Ideally there should be no watermark. Please post a screenshot of what you are seeing, that would help us in assisting you.

Please refer the following article if that helps

Crop images in Photoshop Elements

Regards,

Shivani

MichelBParis

Legend

Shivani,

This is an opportunity to note that the link has not been updated: the "Golden rule" ratio is no longer available.

to rezab31196598

Cropping means three actions:

1 - creating a rectangle to remove the external pixels. The rectangle has to be resized, moved or rotated; you may want it to have a prefered aspect ratio, like the common two/thirds ratio (4" x 6" for instance)

2 - Defining the physical size of the result in inches/millimeters

3 - Adjusting the definition of the result in pixels/inch, which requires 'resampling' that is adding or removing pixels.

So yes, it's not as simple as the first action.

There is another way to crop: you can use the rectangle marquee tool to define the rectangle in action #1, then you use the menu Image/crop. That may help you to perform all three operations in sequence.

For advanced users, the ACR module used for raw files has also its own crop tool, with the advantage the 'crop' is not destructive and can be removed at will.