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Aug 25, 2018 1:45 PM UTC
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Turning off crop suggestions in Elements

It appears that crop suggestions cannot be completely eliminated from the window in Photoshop Elements versions after 13. I absolutely hate this feature as every time my cursor passes over them, if the crop I have created has horizon straightening included, it goes away. I have to cancel and start over. It would be easier to live with if the click box for the crop did not relocate to a position close to the crop suggestions since accepting the final crop is when I accidentally pass over the crop suggestions. I am an event photographer (drag racing) and typically process around 500 images at a time, so speed is everything to me. Accidentally passing over the crop suggestions is a horrible time waster. I can't imagine anyone actually using the crop suggestions, so why can't they be removed from the screen? If there is a way, please let me know how.

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Participating Frequently
Sep 7, 2023 9:37 PM UTC

I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm a digital scrapbook designer so I do a lot of extractions and cropping. Crop suggestions interrupts my workflow tremendously! I don't have the option anywhere in my settings to disable it so I contacted Adobe about it and was told that it was built into the program and could not be disabled. My poor old PSE9 has about had it so I bought Elements 2013 and I hate it. I only use it for making backgrounds because of the time consuming crop suggestions. I need to buy another Elements program but afraid I'll spend all that money just to get another program with the same annoyance.

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Glenn 8675309
Legend
Sep 8, 2023 12:17 PM UTC

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99jon
Legend
Aug 25, 2018 3:56 PM UTC

Go to the menu:

Edit >> Preferences >> General

Uncheck the box – Enable Crop Pre-Selection

Then click OK

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Participant
Aug 25, 2018 5:08 PM UTC

I have done this multiple times and it does not resolve the problem. The crop suggestions remain.

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99jon
Legend
Aug 25, 2018 5:21 PM UTC

Do you have the settings in the tool bar set to unrestricted.

Try cropping a sample pic with that setting, save and close and see if it sticks.

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