How can I prevent Photoshop from automatically cropping my CR2 image to the ratio it was shot in

[Sohayb Megraoui]

Whenever I open a 1:1 ratio image on Photoshop it crops the sides making it a literal square. I lose a lot of the photograph and I haven't found a way to retain the full/original image. Any ideas?

Thank you

[jane-e]

Hi

When you set the options for the Crop tool to 1 to 1, it will be a square, as that is what 1:1 means. Start by resetting the Crop tool. Right-click it in the options bar (not Tools panel) and Reset tool.

"I haven't found a way to retain the full/original image"

Cropping means cutting off part of the image, as if you took scissors to a printed photo. Can you clarify what you are trying to do so we can better assist?

~ Jane

[Sohayb Megraoui]

Thank you. Sorry, perhaps I was not clear enough. When I open a CR2 raw image I shot on my Canon on Photoshop, Camera Raw is automatically opened (I've tried to switch this off but not possible for cr2) and the image is suddenly cropped on both sides rendering it a square. It isn't the original ratio. when I open it in preview on Mac it is fine but on Photoshop the sides are completely cropped automatically on Camera Raw when I try to open the file on there. Hope this is more helpful.

[Bojan Živković]

1:1 ratio is literally square. If you shot 1:1 then that's what you have in whatever format you shot image.

[Sohayb Megraoui]

Thanks. Why is it when I open the image in preview (I use Mac) it is fine but on Photoshop it completely crops both sides. Is there a way to prevent this from happening. 

[josephlavine]

You'll want to change your camera settings to full-frame and not 1:1, which is a square crop. Some cameras ignore this internal cropping information when capturing RAW files and some literally crop to 1:1.

warmly/j

[Sohayb Megraoui]

Thanks. 1:1 aspect was accidentally selected for these few photographs but they're still fine. On preview when I open them on mac they're fine. On Photoshop they're suddenly cropped on camera raw. I don't get this.

[JJMack]

When you crop an image you are cutting off image content. That is what cropping does. If you use Content Aware scale to change your 3:2 Aspect Ratio camera's image to an Image with a square 1:1 Aspect Ratio most of your scaled images contents will not be acceptable to you. There will be too much unacceptable distortion.  If you use Content Aware Scale interactivity and do some masking for Content Aware Scale you may be able to get acceptable results for some images. You should not expect to be able to rescale a landscape or portrait  close up of a person head resized to a 1:1 aspect ration and see an acceptable human head.

[Sohayb Megraoui]

Thank you. I understand this but when I'm opening a normal cr2 file on Photoshop it 1. Automatically opens on Camera Raw and 2. The file is cropped automatically on both sides although the original files are actually fine. I'm not sure why Photoshop is doing this. It is a problem definitely

[JJMack]

Reset your ACR defaults to Adobe's ACR default settings.  Adobe settings do not crop.

[Sohayb Megraoui]

Thanks. I've tried this, still not working. Image is cropped in Camera Raw. Any other suggestions?

Thank you

[Sohayb Megraoui]

[Bojan Živković]

I have Canon camera and here is what I see in Bridge when shoting 1:1 in cr2 and JPEG format, they both look the same: square. Notice the Crop tool icon in the top right corner, that's the key. Raw file still contains data outside the crop while JPEG does not, it is square image without any chance to reset it to normal 3:2 ratio.

The only solution which I found so far is following:

• Right cick on image in Bridge > Open With > Photoshop.
• Activate the Crop tool in ACR.
• Press Esc key.
• Click on Open to open image in Photoshop, it opens full uncropped image in Photoshop.
• Thumbnail in Bidge will change to normal.
• Note: you can also reset crop by opening image in ACR from Bridge then activating and reseting crop as explained in steps 2 and 3 then click on Done button in ACR to confirm and save changes.

[Sohayb Megraoui]

[Sohayb Megraoui]

[Sohayb Megraoui]

Thanks. I've tried this, not working. When I press esc after having selected crop tool in ACR, ACR window closes. Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Sohayb Megraoui]

Guys perhaps I haven't made clear enough what the issue is. Here are a couple of screenshots to demonstrate what exactly the problem I'm having.The image in preview is fine!The image in ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) is cropped??!!

[Bojan Živković]

You probably missed step to activate the Crop tool before clicking Escape to reset crop. Please try again following all steps described or activate the Crop tool and reset it. That worked for me.

[Sohayb Megraoui]

To activate the crop tool do I simply just click the crop tool at the top or do I have to do something else?

Thanks

[Bojan Živković]

Click on Crop tool icon or press letter C. You will see Crop tool icon highlighted on the right side of screen. 

Once you have Crop tool active press Escape, press Ctrl/Cmd + Alt/Opt + R , click on Reset Crop icon ot the righ side of screen or right click and choose Reset Crop.

[Sohayb Megraoui]

It seems you're using a different version of Photoshop hence it isn't working. As you can see on my screenshots the crop tool is at the top. I've clicked this and nothing happens except the pointer becoming the crop symbol. No setting come up for crop. Even so I've pressed the short cuts you've mentioned and followed the rest of the steps nonetheless but not working. I'm using Photoshop CC 2019/2020

[JJMack]

The RAW File may have ACR settings that have a crop setting you would need to reset that crop setting.  ACR Default settings should not have a Crop Setting.  Previously process RAW files can have Crop Settings

[Sohayb Megraoui]

Raw file has not been processed previously. Straight from card

[Bojan Živković]

Here is image straight from camera. The first one is captured with live view turned on and it does have crop tol icon in the top right corner of thumbnail without any previous processing or opening in ACR. Next two files are captured with the same settings but through viewfinder and as you can see, entire images are visible without any crop or crop tool icon as indicator. When I open images in ACR the first one is cropped while other two images which are captured with the same settings are not cropped at all. Why that and how to explain? I do not know, I will quite here because I may further confuse someone.

[JJMack]

In the viewfinder what does the crop symbol icon in the top right corner indicate? Is the Camera's firmwared cropping the image.  In ACR can you reset the crop are the pixels in the RAW Data?  ACR and Photoshop do not write raw files ACR reads the data in the raw file.