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.

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