Crop tool marquee blinks

I am using PS CS5 on a Macaith snow leopard on a MacBook Pro with 4 GB ram. When I make a selection with the crop tool to crop an image the marquee blinks (flashes, pulses, etc.). I am usually running Aperture 3 and Mail behind it. Is this the way its suppode to work, a bug, or can I just not find the way to turn off the flashing?
Thanks,
Peter

Most likely something funny is going on with the OpenGL support.
You can try disabling OpenGL drawing in Photoshop's preferences, or quitting Aperture and see if those make the problem go away.

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What I was expecting to see is the crop tool outline simply showing a square which represents 2100px a side at 240px/inch relative to the image I’m viewing. I would then drag the outline to the position where I wanted it, and then crop the image.
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Interesting, I'm getting the same thing over here. So you're
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Marty. (FWs8 on winxp-home)
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Peter
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| Thomas Unger wrote:
| > marty:
| > I've never experienced that symptom (fw8 on
winxp-pro). In fact I've
used
| > this method for several versions of fireworks on
several platforms (mac
and
| > win) without seeing that, so I'm not sure what to
suggest. Could be a
| > keyboard shortcut conflict--unless it happens with the
mouse as
well... -Tom
| > Unger
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| I have fw8 on winxp-pro as well. It's a new installation of
fireworks; I
| have not changed any keyboard shortcuts from the default
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Location of all the tools in the cs5 toolbox:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-74f6a.h tml
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http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/configurator/
MTSTUNER

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Hi,
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