Make the Crop Tool in PSE5 snap to document bounds

Is there a way to make the crop tool in PSE5 snap to the document bounds (which was the default behaviour in V2 and v3)?
The grid option doesn't work, because the bottom of the image may not align to a grid line. The trick of starting outside the image, drawing past that corner and then holding CTRL to constrain the opposite edge works, but only if you're cropping to two edges of the image, and loses the snap if you try and adjust anything.
Is there any equivalent of the "snap to document bounds" of the earlier versions?
Thanks
Andrew

Hi Andrew,
I believe I know exactly what you mean. My workaround is to make the whole photo smaller than the window I am working in (leave an inch of grey around the edges, for example). Then I click the crop tool about half-an-inch outside one corner and drag to half-an-inch (or so) beyond the opposite corner. You will then have your full picture selected right on the edges. Maybe that could work for you.
Pat Meakin

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Okay, The image is in adjustment view. It has a white border around it. I checked the box that says crop on it. I hover the cursor over the corners. The cursor does not change to crop tool. When I press on the crop icon it beeps a reject sound. Not sure how to phrase that. New to Aperture. Help

There is no "adjustment view" in Aperture.
What happens if you double-click the image with the selection box around it? That should take you from the Browser to the Viewer. Then, in the Crop Brick, click the little "cropping corners" icon, and you should be able to crop.
"c" is the shortcut for bringing up the crop tool when you are in the Viewer. Notice that the tools in the toolstrip (on the bottom border of the viewing area) change depending on whether you are using the Browser or the Viewer.
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I've always created my paths in Illustrator, and then imported them to Photoshop, but
I wanted to give paths a goo in Photoshop but the first hick-up was; how do I created paths with the pen tool
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Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3
OS: XP w/SP3
System: Dell vostro 200, 2.20GHz Duo, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD (mostly free), Intel G33/G31 Express 128.
ERROR:
No error message displayed
ISSUE:
When cropping a photo, the crop tool highlights the photo correctly, but when the crop is activated it resized the photo to about 1 pixel, no matter how large or small the selection crop was.
Actions took:
I fully installed all the updates, when unsuccessful, I repaired the installation, when that was unsuccessful, I completely uninstalled and then reinstalled Photoshop. This was also unsuccessful...

hit the clear button in the option bar when selecting the crop tool. if that doesn't reset it, see the faq in this forum about resetting your photoshop preferences.

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I think the the Crop Tool always snaps to pixels while it is initially dragged to size. If a guide is not precisely on a pixel boundary then the Crop Tool will not initially snap exactly to the guide - it should snap to the next outward pixel boundary.
After the initial dragging out of the crop box, slightly drag each of its sides away from the guide and back to the guide for a correct snap to the guide.
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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.

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The one tool that i use everday, the croptool, is gone from CS4.
I hate the multiple artboards, without the same co-ordinates really, what good are they, but i rant.
The crop tool was best for making a box around selections, (crop to selections, release, voila, a box
that fits perfect to selections), Perfect for print production, never mind pasting between the suite.
Slice does not have the accuracy.
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Yeah I've been reading all over internet and all over the design blog I use to read and taking off the crop tool was kinda mistake. I use it a lot on the office for pinting and for quick shooting of differente art works. I do like the art boards option but is certainly does not do the things crop tool used to make.
For me personally has been really complicated doing things I used to do so quickly. For the next version of Illustrator would be great to bring it back. I think all people would agree with me, if not refer to any blog and you'll see people commentaries about it.
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Double check all the settings in the crop tool, and make sure you aren't telling it to create a HUGE image as a result of your settings.

I use PSE 9 and i just recently encountered a problem trying to crop a photo. I can't find the crop tool. What am I doing wrong?

I have been using PSE for quite a while but I am not a power user. I often use the crop tool to trim unwanted elements and set the size for the paper I want to use. When I opened a photo to edit yesterday the crop tool was not there. There is a tool named recompose but if I click it I cannot make any adjustments. I do not know if other functions are affected and I have no idea how to check them. I have no idea what caused this problem and would appreciate any assistance in resolving the problem.

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You should be able to Left click and hold on the toolbox icons to see the fly-out menus for the tools that share the same slots.
Tools in the toolbox that have other tools in the same slot have a little black arrow to the right of the tool icons.
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Enlarging photos after rotating with the crop tool

Hi,
I will try a second attempt for my wish to add a feature to the crop tool:
I like the cropping tool in lightroom, but there is one feature I miss:
Sometimes I have this situation:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellersiek/2633499034
Knowing, that in most situations the limiting cropping is ok, I wish to have an option to enlarge the resulting image like this way:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellersiek/2632678737
It is okay, if there is an option in the preferences with the ablility to select a color for the "new" pixels and the crop tool will only enlarge the picture while pressing the control key (to avoid undesirable results).
You can say: "take the right picture, move your camera", but in such photo sessions we have some good reasons to take the pictures in this way.
With greatings from germany
Ralf

Of cause, after enlarging by Lightroom, I have to do something with the new area/pixels by hand. By the way, I only wish new pixels in a, in the settings definable, color - no "intelligent" enlarging.
In the session of the shown example we took 50 product pictures. In 45 pictures are the products inside enough for the cropping tool. We need a fix rotate angle for all the picture so we use sync settings to transfer all settings (white balancing, color, light, rotate, crop). 5 pictures we cropped to much, so we have to rotate in later in photoshop - this breaked the workflow.
I like Lightroom very much, because it is much faster than Photoshop, non destruktive and it is easy and fast to repeate the processing if you need to change some parameters. So I which to do the most steps in Lightroom and only those steps, for which lightroom is not designed, I will done with Photoshop.
I miss the enlarging also in other situations (like architectual or landscape photos). Sure I have to do some steps later by hand but I was able to the most steps in Lighroom in a single workflow with a single setting.
Greeting from Germany
Ralf
PS.: I'm not a native english speaker: What do you mean with "How is it supposed to make a judgement call about how to create the new pixels"?

Why is the crop tool in Lightroom 5 so sluggish on my otherwise very fast machine?

I'm running a Macbook Pro Retina, new from this time last year. It's got 16gb RAM, a 768gb SSD (with about 150gb free space), and 2.8GHz processor. Everything else is lightening fast on my system. Lightroom is fine otherwise, but the crop tool is almost unusably slow. When I tap "R", it sometimes takes 5-10 seconds to load into crop mode, and another 5-10 seconds to load out of it.
Additionally, it will show the incorrect preview in crop for the first few seconds, so if I go back to re-crop something, it will act as if I am adjusting the cropped version rather than the original, so if I exit too quickly, it comes back wrong.
I've tried what other users recommended - using both full screen and not, updated to the latest version, restarted multiple times with no solution. Please help!

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I just checked them again, and everything is changed back to allow Flash to have its way. Looks like I'll be uninstalling that now...
I also installed Acrobat recently, just to have an alternative to Preview. Sea Monkey opened an alert box just now, telling me to watch out for the Acrobat plugins, as they've been known to cause problems. Gotta love Adobe.
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Make the Crop Tool in PSE5 snap to document bounds

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