Cropping Issue in CS6

On my installation of PS CS6, cropping an image to any proportion except Unconstrained or 1 x 1 is not possible. No matter what settings I use, the results as worthless. I never had this issue in CS5 and frankly, that tool worked just fine and why in the world some bozo had to change the functionality of the Crop Tool in CS6 is beyond me.

Using Classic merely changes the way the cropping box operates, nothing else. The true Classic Cropping does not immediately set a crop box on the image, you have to do it in the basic style of a pair of cropping Ls, set to run simultaneously rather than individually, which was pretty klutzy in analog days.
My basic objections are three fold:
1)Setting the crop centered will have the effect of "suggesting" that this is the proper procedure in cropping when only the proportions are being changed. This is only true for a square crop, but even there, the true center of the best crop may not be in the center of the uncropped image. For all other crops, the starting place is with the edge of the crop at the edge of the image. Usually one edge placement is far better than the other one (Left instead of right etc). I learned this trick from a graphic designer noted for his ability to grab the best out of a crop.
2) The cropping ants don't go away when clicking the check mark ok, giving rise to the impression something has been left undone. You have to selesct another tool to see them disappear. And, if you use Enter instead of the Check Mark, then try for a different tool, the "Crop Box choice appears. To get around that, Enter has to be hit twice.
3) If the Crop Tool is selected while opening a new doc, it automatically appears cropped! Whut? This is not helpful at all, and is probably the most noxious aspect of the new Crop. When I first see an image, first impressions count hugely, and now the fist thing I may see is the cropped to center version of whatever proportion last used. NO! I want to engage the marching ants when I click on the image, and not before. It is mitigated by unclicking "Enable Crop Shield", but still not acceptable because it involves way too many clicks for ordinary work.
Perhaps a Custom setup connected to ones Workspace that can set all these from the defaults to what you like needs to be implemented. I can tell you that as it stands, it greatly slows down my operations.
Some minor points about the Crop: Why is there both an Icon and Straighten included as options? What does clicking on View supposed to do, and finally changing the behavior of the Overlay options does not occur when first opening a document until you click the Ratio Dialog. That actually is fine, but please include the crop marks as well. Having the Crop tool selected when opening the document should not automatically include the crop marks.
But then, I've been doing photography a very long time and perhaps should retire from the scene.
Lawrence

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I have been doing some tests and this is a rather odd issue I seem to be getting and I can't believe this is an Adobe oversight as it's a bit major and must be something I am missing.
I am going to explain exactly what I am doing to simulate this simple test, although please be aware this is appearing in my normal work flow and causing me some headaches.
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Regards
Paul

I am going to reply o this if you make a circle and you make an artboard for that page and save it for the web you will crop half a pixel off the bottom and right sides if you increase the art board by a little over one third pixel all will be fine you get the whole circle.
This was happening to you as well but since it was a rectangle you did not notice it, Now to the problem you mention I would say it was related and that why you don't see it until you move it down is related to the problem that is happening at he bottom and you only see it when it is brought into view as you did.
So what can be done about it?
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As to you disbelief that Adobe would allow this to get by I am with you we all are hence the reason no one else answered we accept this and wait for a fix and by then we will probably never even notice that the save for the web is fixed.
Everyone will be back on this thread with "Hey when they did they fixed this? Huh?
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When I opened it in CC the artwork was completely changed due to colors changing and effects disappearing.
This sounds like a particular instance involving a particular file, but it's not clear whether your problem pertains to just one file, or several, or all. It would really help to post a detailed description of one instance, including the file contents, any/all Blend Modes and/or Effects used, and specifically, which ones drop away and exactly how it affects the outcome.

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Message was edited by: djmulryan - amended screen shots

Hi all, I hope somebody can help.
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I have previously used this work-flow with CS4 and CS5.5 and have had great results.
When I attempted the same thing this morning, for the first time with CS6 Media Encoder, the .FLVs came out glitchy in places (screen shots 1 & 2 attached).
Thinking it was a process error, I tried several different methods and all yielded the same results.
So I returned to CS4, thinking it might be a software issue, and "hey presto" no glitches!
All updates are present and correct from the Creative Cloud/ Adobe Application Manager, so am I missing something?
Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Lots more encoding to be done this afternoon and would like to use CS6 ME if at all possible.
Any help would be massively appreciated.
Darren
Message was edited by: djmulryan - amended screen shots

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