Everytime i try to crop it crops to this small pixelated square.

[Errbiies]

I have a MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2016, Monterey 12.7.3

2.9 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5, 

8 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3, 

Intel Iris Graphics 550 1536 MB, 

Everytime i try to crop it crops to this small pixelated square. Im following along in the "Photoshop Classroom in a Book" and have googled all i can to solve the issue or at least get an answer to what could be wrong. Is my computer out dated or something? I keep trying to run an older version of Ps but it automatically switches me back to 2024. I hope the screenshots are useful.

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

Yes you have really small values entered in the Crop Tool Width and Height filelds.

Click on the Clear button in the tool options bar

[Errbiies]

Thats why im so confused bc those are the values the book says to put. Should i clear the values before I push crop? 

[Jeff Arola]

Your values are 7 px (pixels) instead of 7 in (inches) like in the last screenshot you posted and that's why the image is so small after being cropped.

Enter 7 in instead of 7 px

[Errbiies]

Ignore my last reply, what you said worked, tysm ❤️