Crop tool in elements 8 disappeared

How do I get back my crop tool?
First it didnt work, then the
icon disappeared from the tool bar.

Click the recompose tool and choose the crop tool from the flyout menu.

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Crop Tool Makes Picture Disappear

Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 for MAC.
Anyone else ever seen this? When I select content using the crop tool then hit enter (or the green checkmark) the picture just disappears. This happened all of a sudden a few days ago. I can do COMMAND Z to undo and the picture reappears. But every time I crop the picture disappears and the layer thumbnail just turns brown. Suggestions?

You probably have some small values set in the height, width or resolution fields.
Resetting the Crop Tool by clicking on the small arrow highlighted in red below and clicking on Reset Tool usually corrects the problem.

Crop tool making image disappear

After upgrading to new iMac with OSX 10.8, using the crop tool in PSE 6 makes the image disappear. How to fix?

There must be an option somewhere to "Reset this tool". I haven't used PSE6, so I can't tell you where it is.
But when you select Crop tool, it must be in a dropdown in the crop options.
See if Resetting the tool helps.

My crop tool in element 10 no longer functions. All the layer boxes go blank.

When I try to crop a photomerge image all the layer boxes go blank, the box that should have the cropped image has a teeny paint brush overlaying a teeny canvas, no image.

You might have some small values entered in the height, width or resolution boxes.
See if resetting the Crop Tool solves the issue.
With the Crop Tool selected click on the small downturned arrow and choose Reset Tool
After you crop can you see the cropped image on the screen or is it in the layers panel your talking about?

Cropping Tool in Elements 8

Having had no previous trouble with the cropping tool, I had just created the cropping area (rectangular) and while I was moving the cursor up to images>crop the shape turned to ellipse. It is still doing it. Any solutions, please?

Your picture didn't upload. You need to come to the website and use the camera icon above the message area to upload a photo. Here's all I have for the crop tool in PSE 10:

I have been using Photoshop Elements 8 for years. All of a sudden, the cropping tool changed: I cannot crop vertically or horizontally anymore--only diagonally. This has made it impossible for me to get the photo I want. I hope someone knows how to fix th

I have been using Elements 8 ever since it came out, and all of a sudden the cropping tool has changed: I can no longer crop horizontally or vertically, only diagonally. The up/down/side arrows have disappeared! Please help if you can, I'm no longer able to make my photos look their best. Thank you in advance.

Quit the editor (Quit PSE on a mac). Then restart it while holding down ctrl+alt+shift (command+option+shift). Keep the keys down till you see a window asking if you want to delete the settings file. You do.

Image disappearance upon using crop tool.

Using photoshop elements 6 , OSX 10.5, image disappears after using crop tool.
Have reinstalled software, but no affect. Has anyone else had this problem?

Hi Barbara... I am wondering if I can still get a bit of help in this topic. I tried that, but the files you mentioned are not in my preferences folder in my library. I am running CS4 on OS X 10.9.5 with a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB graphics card(s).in another forum it was mentioned to go to Preferences>Performance>Advanced Settings>Change the drawing mode to 'Basic', but that didn't work. Another said almost the same thing but to check off the Open GL tab... also didn't work... I am at a loss... Can you or anyone else for that matter, help?
Thanks!

I have a problem when cropping 8 but tiff files in elements 12. Once area is selected and I crop the image it disappears. The file no. sill shows but the image is not viewable. I have saved the file from that point and tries reopening but the image isn't

Has anyone experienced this before ? I have previously been able to crop images with no problem. Recently when I open an image and crop it and confirm the action the image 'disappears' If I save and go to reopen the file is there but it will be zero meg in size.

Hi,
Try resetting the crop tool.
To the right of the tool option bar, click on the little horizontal lines and you should see reset tool option.
Good luck
Brian

My Elements 9 cropping tool just stopped working...crops the entire photo.

My Elements 9 cropping tool just started cropping the entire image away today. Just got an Adobe air update last night. This is nothing I have done. All that's left after using my crop tool is a .jpg symbol. Please help.

First try resetting the tool. If that doesn't work delete the settings file by holding down Ctrl+Alt+Shift as you start PSE and answering the prompt to delete.
Cheers,
Neale
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PhotoShop Elements 9 Crop Tool is a total failure!

I do a fair amount of work that involves a lot of croping, mainly for animation sequencing. The Crop tool Custom Height and Width settings do NOT WORK.
I usually have a test image of the exact size that I work in. Example: 500 x100 pixels. This converts to 13.23cm x 2.65 cm at 96dpi. When I type these Crop Size requirements into the Crop tool settings box, I get a crop size way outside the size of the image that I want to crop. There is no way to set that size up yourself by using a test image as a template. In fact there is no way to set up custom sizes in the menu at all! I find this to be very upsetting as I have only just purchased this product. This limitation is something that I would expext to find in freeware, but not in a program like PhotoShop Elements 9. I have tried every conceivable way to try to get the Crop Tool to work to a Pre Set size with no success.
Why is it that a graphics program will not allow you to put in a pixel x pixel measurement? That is pure stupidity on the part of the programmers and very poor work on the part of the testing team. No wonder the program itself crashes from time to time. It just stops running - ppffft! I have a state of the art 64 bit system running Win 7 with plenty of RAM and a High end Graphics Card, so I know that my system is not at fault - it's PhotoShop 9. I cannot believe the primative workspace and the lack of the ability to custom predefine tools. All in all I'm extremely unhappy with PE9.
If anyone has had this or similar issues and has found a solution please tell me what it is.

In answer to your remark I will go through the whole process again at a later date and re-post. It does not make any difference to the resultant Crop size whether you input cm or pixels. Here's a point for you though since you mentioned it. Check out the Ruler - does it look like the Crop is anywhere near 500cm x 100cm? Maybe you were so busy trying to find fault that you failed to see the forest for the trees?
I only find fault where it exists - not where it doesn't. As far as Forums go, I am a member of a few Forums and have not had this sort of problem with answers before where the reply posts tend toward trying to pretend a problem doesn't exist or trying to prove fault with the poster. Hmmm. Again I wonder how many of these reply's are from people with some affiliation with Adobe?
I will finish by saying that just for you I will go through the whole pointless exercise again and make sure that the Pixels are indeed input.
1. Opening File
2. File Open.
3. Resetting Crop Tool.
4. Crop Tool reset and Measurement Boxes clear.
5.First Measurement Input. PLEASE NOTE 500 Pixels Input!
6. Second Measurement Input. PLEASE NOTE 100 Pixels Input!
7. Third Criteria Input. PLEASE NOTE 96dpi Input!
8. All Input Data correct and ready to Crop to preset Width/Height/Dpi restrictions.
9. OH DEAR IT DOESN'T WORK! Again it fails to give me a simple 500x100 pixel at 96dpi Crop Box!
After this reply post you may just get some idea of the frustration I am experiencing. As you can plainly see the Crop Box drawn goes to the very edges of the Image to be Cropped. Can you see the problem now? Maybe I should just go with my friend's suggestions and take a video of the process and post it on YouTube? Then go to my local Consumer Affairs Department! If you can find what I am supposedly doing wrong - please elucidate as I have followed both the prescribed steps in the somewhat Shoddy Online Help and also the suggested remedies posted on the Forum. All to no avail. It just Won't Work!

My Photoshop Elements 9.0.3 will not crop photos as it did in the past. When I use the crop tool, th

My Photoshop Elements 9.0.3 will not crop photos as it did in the past. When I use the crop tool, the photo is changed to the size of a dot and is unrecognizable. Can this be fixed?

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How can I resize an image without losing resolution or using the crop tool? I am using Photoshop Elements 13 on a PC.

How can I resize an image without losing resolution or using the crop tool? I am using Photoshop Elements 13 on a PC.

Hi Peru Bob,
I've tried two images, the results were:
Image 1
Jpg, original file size 923KB, dimensions 848px x 279px.
After resizing to 848px x 180px with 72dpi, the file size decreased to 164KB.
Image 2
Jpg, original file size 809KB, dimensions 1200px x 1800px.
After resizing to 668px x 722px with 72dpi, the file size decreased to 307KB.
So, there seems to be a fair file size loss - is this to be expected?

Photoshop CS5 64 bit tools window, why Crop tool disappeared from tools window?

I am using the above version of Photoshop in windows 7 64 bit. A few week ago the crop tool just disappeared from the Tools window. The crop tool is just below move tool and just above the rectangular marquis tool. I have been using various versions of photoshop for over 15 years and have never had a tool disappear from the preset tools window. Does anyone have any idea how to restore the crop tool to it's original location? I have tried the help file, and I guess I don't know how to phrase the question properly to get any useful answers. Also, is there any way to add additional tools to the tools window? This windows installation is on a computer that is usually not conected to the internet for security reasons. If anyone has a solution, an email to [email protected] would really be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Jeff Warren1983

I suspect the crop tool is not missing but just not selected. In cs4/cs5 the crop tool is grouped with the slice tools in the toolbox, much
like older versions such as ps4 had the crop tool grouped with the marquee selection tools in the toolbox.
Location of all the tools in the cs5 toolbox:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-74f6a.h tml
I don't think you can add any tools that aren't already there, but you can use configurator to make your own panel having
the tools arranged the way you see fit.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/configurator/
MTSTUNER

PS CS4: Crop tool settings disappear as i tab through

I just received a new Macbook Pro laptop from employer, running Mac OS 10.9.4 and have Photoshop CS 4 Extended installed. I've been using PS for decades, last version used was CS2. I've never encountered this before.
In the Crop Tool options at the top left, if I enter 10 inches wide, tab to resolution (leaving vertical clear), the width setting disappears as soon as I enter something for the resolution. Tabbing back to re-enter width, the resolution entry disappears. Back and forth, back and forth. ARRRRGH. This happens if tabbing. i think it happened on a mouse click too but when checking just now mouse click worked ok..
This happens when I focus on only the vertical and resolution settings too.
Anybody else experiencing this? My co-worker right there (pointing left) says his does the same thing (CS4 on previous generation Macbook Pro) but over the past year he's gotten used to it. Is this a new "feature"? What am i missing? I would like to work the old way which doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
thanks
eric
fresno, ca.

The crop tool always works like that, even though you enter precise values you can still make the selection as small/big as you like however once you accept the crop it will be the size you specified.
You could try using the Marquee tool, set Style to Fixed Size, enter the values you want and select the area you want to crop(this time it will remain the size you want it to be) and go to Image->Crop.
PPI matters only when printing, low PPI won't give you smaller files, only pixel dimensions count

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