Rectangle tool not working like before

[remoran]

Adobe has lost it's way. The rectangle tool worked. Now it's complexified. I want to crop an image. Back in the day, you drew a rectangle and you did the crop/ Now it's automatically filled and one had to screw around with it to try to make it work. Good design is invisible. You simply do. I build front ends for systems so I know a little bit. Complexification is easy, simplification is not. Tell the front end guys to channel Jobs. Don't make me think. 

[jane-e]

The rectangle tool worked. ... I want to crop an image. Back in the day, you drew a rectangle and you did the crop/ Now it's automatically filled

By @remoran

The Rectangle tool is one of the Vector Shape tools and has never been used for cropping an image.

There are two ways to crop:

• Rectangle Marquee tool followed by Edit menu > Crop
• Crop tool

"Back in the day" there were no Shape tools. They were first introduced in 2000 with Photoshop 6.0.

I've branched your post from a solved thread posted six years ago in 2018 to its own thread.

Jane