P: Cropping using ruler different behaviour if via icon or via CTRL

[konrad79]

If I crop my image (Original Ratio) and I click the ruler icon, draw a line the image is rotated AND cropped correctly - over all the years perfect.

But if I crop but hold CTRL and draw the ruler line with this "other ruler"(?) the image is also rotated - but NOT cropped.

Is this a bug or a feature?

[jane-e]

But if I crop but hold CTRL and draw the ruler line with this "other ruler"(?) the image is also rotated - but NOT cropped.

By @konrad79

Can you tell us why you're holding down the Control key when you drag to straighten the image?

Also, what do you mean by "other ruler"?

Jane

[konrad79]

For years I had to clicked the ruler in the toolbar for each image I want to straighten the horizon - open 50 images - click 50 times the ruler icon in the toolbar - drawing the line - cropping.

Now I dicovered, holding CTRL-key in cropping mode also let the ruler appears and let draw me a line - without the annoying click on the icon. 

But since the behaviour of this ruler/straighten feature is different than the one via the icon click, I named it "other ruler".

And I wonder, if the different behaviour of the straighten feature are a feature (for whar reason) or a bug.

[CMass]

Hey @konrad79 

I totally see what you mean. Let me double-check with the team, because it’s not working quite the way I’d expect either, but I normally don't use this tool in my workflow. In the meantime, it looks like you may need to confirm "Straighten Layer" at the top of the workspace — that might do the trick!

^CM

[BrettN]

When you use the Level (Straighten) tool within Crop, it will enable "Constrain Crop" to prevent the creation of blank new areas around your image. When you use the Ctrl key to temporarily engage the Level, it does not enable the constraint. This behavior is similar to how Straighten functions with the Ruler tool. This is likely how it has always worked, even though I can only confirm as far back as PS2019. We can log a feature request to add the ability to modify the behavior for each, for example, by adding the Alt/Option key.

[konrad79]

@BrettN: Thanks for that info. Do I anywhere see this activation of "Constrain Crop" or is this hidden in the code behind? In LR, there is a checkbox for that (that also isn't remembered for every photo checked once, but another topic).

And were there product management reasons, the implement this straighten feature once with and once without "Constrain Crop"? May be I'm the exotic one with this strange expectation 😉