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mistr200
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April 22, 2011
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Cropping Tool under image section grayed out. NEED HELP

  • April 22, 2011
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On photoshop cs5, I am having problems of the Crop tool being grayed out under the Image tab. Also the icon is hidden in the tools panel. Is anyone having this same problem in CS5?

    Correct answer

    For command crop in the image menu to work, you either need an active selection or

    have draw out the crop with the crop tool, but not have commited the crop.

    The crop tool in the toolbox is different from the crop command in the image menu.

    You could either use the crop tool in the toolbox to crop an image or make a selection

    with the Rectangular marquee tool and then use the crop command in the image menu.

    more info:

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7636a.html

    MTSTUNER

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    maddog4u
    maddog4u
    Participating Frequently
    September 29, 2011

    On the tools panel, you will note a VERY small black triangle on the next to the knife too (right bottom corner of button).

    It will expand a fly out, from which you can select the crop tool to be revelaed and active.

          

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      Blast339193993e6f
      Participant
      November 28, 2023

      Does not work. HELLO ADOBE, I would like to perform a simple CROP !...........

        jbarkerhill
        jbarkerhill
        Inspiring
        April 6, 2024

        i have found in illustrator especially you cannot crop groups or vectors, first i have to rasterize the group with a transparent background so that it becomes a solid image then the crop option is available. See if that works for you


        That worked for me, to export the .svg from Illustrator as a .jpg, then reimport and crop, and export again 

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        Anonymous
        Correct answer
        April 22, 2011

        For command crop in the image menu to work, you either need an active selection or

        have draw out the crop with the crop tool, but not have commited the crop.

        The crop tool in the toolbox is different from the crop command in the image menu.

        You could either use the crop tool in the toolbox to crop an image or make a selection

        with the Rectangular marquee tool and then use the crop command in the image menu.

        more info:

        http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7636a.html

        MTSTUNER

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          webtrekker
          Participating Frequently
          May 16, 2020

          Or ... simply Ctrl+LMB the image icon in the layers panel to select it, then select 'Image --> Crop' from the menu.

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