After Cropping To A Specific Pixel Size

Question

Is there a way to crop an image to an exact pixel dimension and be able to move the crop box to the edge of the image?

If I enter specific pixels in both fields, the crop takes on those dimensions, but when I drag it, I can never get it aligned - a white border always results because I'm not exactly on the edge.

I know using 'shift' will keep it vertically locked, but I'm looking for it to lock to horizontal.

Conrad_C · Accepted Answer

That means I didn’t write it clearly, because how it works is rather subtle and not obvious.

Specifically, the difference is:

If Control is held down before or as you click, then the context menu pops up (right-click).

If Control is held down after you mouse down and start dragging, it toggles the Snap setting.

I am not sure if that worked as far back as CS6, but I think it did…

Conrad_C · Answer

On the View menu, is the Snap command selected? If it is, as you drag a crop rectangle edge near the canvas edge, the rectangle should snap to the canvas edge.

When Snap is not selected, you can hold down the Control key (not the Command key) to make a drag snap to an edge. (It works the other way too, if Snap is selected, you can temporarily disable Snap as long as you hold down the Control key.)

If that doesn’t solve it, what are the width and height (in pixels) of the original image, and the crop rectangle?

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