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December 3, 2020
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Why did Perspective Warp suddenly start cropping out the image? I am NOT using "perspective crop"

  • December 3, 2020
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I'm making a digital mock-up of my house so I can pre-layout picture frames I want to hang. I've been using perspective warp on literally over 30 images of walls and frames taken on my phone to straighten them. It's been going swimmingly, no problems. Suddenly, when I click "warp", photoshop automatically started cropping the image to the frame. I'm using Edit>Perspective warp. I drag the corner pins to align my landmark edges, change the mode to "warp," and before I've even moved anything, the image has been cropped to an area around the box. I'm still able to drag my warp corners around before I finalize the warp. Any ideas how this got changed? How do I fix it? I'm on Windows, using Photoshop 21.0.3.

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Participating Frequently
January 14, 2025

I deleted the smart filters and it works perfectly

 

Participating Frequently
April 5, 2024

I got around it somehow. I had another smart object warped in the document I'm working on which I suspect was causing the glitch.

What I changed: Illustrator: make the artboard of the smart object huge + save > Photoshop: Prior to warping: Scale and rotate smart object as close to the intended shape as possible. + Change the layer stacking order so the smart object I want to warp is on top of the other warped smart object. > Perspective warp. No crop!

I'm not sure if all those steps are necessary, but it seems to me like there is data from the other smart object bugging out. I have work to do, but just thought I would reply with a potential fix.

Hope that helps!

Participating Frequently
April 16, 2024

A few days later... same project. Different side of vehicle I'm working on. Same issue... Same fix.


Deleted the clipping warped object. Expanded the artboard in Illustrator and centered the object - I feel like this step is superstition but I'd rather use the extra time right now to leave this comment...

Pasted the illustrator graphic in as a smart object. Moved it close to the area I needed it warped to. Scaled it down a little. Rotated it so it was close to the space it needed to occupy. Then perspective warp worked as intended.

Participating Frequently
April 5, 2024

Happening here too. Copy in Illustrator > pasting as a smart object in Photoshop > perspective warp > weird crop

Participating Frequently
January 14, 2025

I had this and I deleted the smart filters and it worked perfectly 

 

Participant
February 27, 2024

It's doing the same thing to me. Three of the four corner points are fine, but it crops the image to the original frame in the lower left. 

davescm
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Community Expert
December 3, 2020

I've just tried and can't replicate that in 21.2.4 or 22.0.1

 

Have you done any troubleshooting so far, e.g. resetting preferences?

Dave