My selection tool won't crop an image correctly!!!

[laurieh36731737]

My selection tool won't crop an image correctly when I drag the frame from one of the points. Instead it moves the entire image to fit the frame, resizing it vs. letting me crop what I want. This seems to be some sort of defualt when I upgraded. Anyone know how to turn this off? I am not posting images within a frame.

[John T Smith]

The Lounge Forum is not for technical help, please provide the name of the program you are using so your message may be moved to the correct program forum... A program would be Photoshop or InDesign or Illustrator or ???

[laurieh36731737]

Any help would be appreciated. I can't contact anyone at Adobe, Can't find anything in the forums or online search. It's making my job very difficult to work in InDesign. Thank you

[laurieh36731737]

Indesign

[cmgap]

Check to make sure you don't have constrain crop on if  you are in Lightroom..

[Ian Blogs]

Make sure you are using the correct selection tool. Use the black one.

[Bill Silbert · Accepted solution]

It sounds like you've been using the Direct Selection tool (the white arrow) which will activate the image within the frame for moving and sizing. If you click on a point of the outer frame with the group selection tool (the black arrow) you can adjust the dimensions of the frame to crop the image.

[Frans v.d. Geest]

Check to see if auto resize is turned on (checkmark in Control panel).

[aguerrero217]

This 100% fixed my problem.

To others, make sure you have the image selected in order to adjust the setting in your control panel. 

[erickrios]

This is the correct answer

[alsherlock1]

OMGosh - that fixed my problem!!!  TY!!!

[sacrates73]

I FINALLY figured this out. Hope you did too. If not:

Set frame fitting options

You can associate a fitting option to a placeholder frame so that whenever new content is placed in that frame, the fitting command is applied.

1.      Select a frame.

2.      Choose Object > Fitting > Frame Fitting Options.

3.      Specify the following options, and then click OK:

Auto-Fit

Select this option if you want the image to resize automatically when you resize the frame.

[at27176644]

I found this helpful because, even when using just the black Selection tool, the object was re-sizing.  This fixed the problem.

[Joe-New-to-ID]

This was the remedy. Thank you.