Minor Frustration with new crop tool movement

Crop Tool
Currently the new crop tool method feels very unnatural to me in movement. Is there any way we could get an option to maybe invert the x and y movement. Preferably one option for the x and a seperate for the y. I kind of like the way it works but in it's current form I am likely to just revert it to the old style.

Stay with it, and I think you'll prefer the way it works now. I grumbled about it on day one, but feel distictly embarrassed about doing so now, because it is way better now. Check out this video, and see if that changes your mind
http://www.lynda.com/home/Player.aspx?lpk4=101527&playChapter=False
From here

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What is wrong with the crop tool in Photoshop CS6? (picture included)

Ever since I upgraded to Photoshop CS6 and started to use the new crop tool, I get this quite interesting visual error and some artifacting.
I didn't have the problem with the crop tool in the previous versions of Photoshop.
What can be the issue?

Seems like a GPU problem. Can you try going into Photoshop Preferences, disable GPU acceleration and try if that fixes it?

All-New Crop Tool in Photoshop CS6 | Visual Design CS6 | Adobe TV

Crop images faster and with greater precision using the all-new, nondestructive Crop tool. Rapidly manipulate your images on canvas and see your adjustments happen live thanks to the Mercury Graphics Engine.
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Adobe, your new and "improved" Crop tool is trash! It is unintuitive, slow and hinders production speed. Your Classical mode is NOT classical mode! What were you thinking? That by slowing down one of the most core functionalities of Photoshop you're somehow improving it? Your new Crop tool sucks! AT LEAST make the Classic tool REAL classic tool! Ideally, roll back the old Crop, it worked PERFECTLY and needed no improvement!

Problems with new crop functions and old crop actions

I discovered that my actions imported from CS4, which contain preset dimensions for the crop window, do not function as written UNLESS the crop tool is activated before running the action. These actions are designed to open the crop window at a specific dimension, then stop, allowing me to move the crop window to the desired postion, then continue with the cropping and, finally, interpolation back to original image dimensions. However, in CS6, if you run these actions with any tool enabled OTHER THAN THE CROP TOOL, the crop window appears at the perimeter of the image. With the crop tool enabled, the actions function as written. Hopefully you can fix this before the final release.
I'm running Win 7 Pro on 64 bit machine, and the above problem occurred running the 32 bit CS6.
Mike
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Patti,
Here's a screen capture of the crop action. The action is designed to stop at the first step, allowing me to drag the crop box to wherever I want. The box normally appears roughly centered. However, in CS6, this only works if the crop tool is pre-selected before running the action. If any other tool is active, the crop box expands to the perimeter of the image.
Mike

Where do I activate the new crop tool also in ACR?

Is it possible to get the same cropping tool in ACR, which already exists in LR4 and PS CS6?
When Photoshop CS6 was released the crop tool within Photoshop itself was updated with a new interface, similar to that in Lightroom. Why did Adobe not also update the crop tool in ACR, Adobe Camera Raw? As it is an essential part of Photoshop CS6?
Basically, why does ACR 7 still have the old crop tool interface, while the Lightroom and Photoshop products both are having the new crop tool interface?
Or have I missed a setting somewhere to turn on the new cropping tool in ACR as well?
Thanks in advance!

No, not possible at this time.
I believe you're not the first to request it as a feature from Adobe.
-Noel

Camera RAW start with the crop tool automatically selected?

Is it possible to enable camera RAW to start with the crop tool automatically selected?

As far aas I know you can't.
But you could ask in the Camera Raw forum – they know these things!
http://forums.adobe.com/community/cameraraw

Trouble with my cropping tool

I am having trouble with my cropping tool. It doesnt seem to want to crop, the bar will go about a third of the way and then wont go any further and the says Photoshop not responding then I have to crtl alt delete to get out. I am a afraid to uninstall then reintall as I have a whole lot of assignments to do and cant risk it not reinstalling uggg

With the crop tool selected, try this reset:
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Tips! How to bypass new crop tool CS6, photoshop

Do you dislike the new crop function in Photoshop CS6?
I found out a way to handle and bypass the function so it works like in earlier versions.
1. First step is to change to classic mode (this is done in settings above the image a little "gear")
2. The second step is to change ratio to unconstrained.
The third step is the tip!
I was very frustrated that I could not start outside the picture to begin my cropping.
You know when you want to crop a landscape image of a portrait image and want to go from side to side.
The problem was that I started to rotate a crop frame that was there by default... REALLY CRAPPY FEATURE!
3. So here is the tip
Place your cursor is outside the picture
Before you begin dragging, hold down shift.
Begin the dragging, then let go of shift, and "tada" the crop frame behaves as it should.
I hope you found this info useful
Best Regards // Daniel

I don't see why your method is better than just using the new perspective crop tool (it allows you to start outside the image, use a specific size, and rotate the crop (by dragging from near/outside of a corner).
In a lot of cases want to go from left to right edge of the image.
From Original ratio:
To do it the "new" way means two step
Move down the upper edge, move up the lower edge.
From unconstraind:
To do it the "new" way means two step
Almost drag the area I want, move the edges out to left and right.
With my method I can easily drag the area I want in one movement.
at least a couple of problems with that: You still can't distort the crop lines (grab a corner and move it independent of the other corners) to fix perspective and such; and you aren't cropping to a particular size (which means you have to do it as a separate step after cropping).
I am sorry I could not find a way to do that easy...
And I agree to the common opinion, why limit something that works well, without having the option via settings to get it back.

New crop tool in CS 6 not an improvement

I'd like to add my comments to the unpopularity of the new improved crop tool in CS 6. It seems it is no longer possible to set a custom aspect ratio of less than an inch. If I want to crop the spine of a book out of a 2D layout for use in an action to make a 3D image, I have to do it freehand. If the spine is less than an inch wide and I try to set the width of the crop to that amount I get an error message saying "A value between 1.000 and 300000.00 is required." I admit the 30000 inches is very generous, but why limit the minimum to 1 inch? Unless I'm missing something. They say the new Photoshop crop tool now funtions like Lightroom. I would prefer it funtion like Photoshop.

John Waller wrote:
...But I think most people will post screenshots from whatever interface scheme they normally use.
Of course! Every poster has a right to limit the number of potential replies as he or she sees fit.
I'm just saying, some of us may not be able to contribute a helpful reply in those cases.
Anyway, thanks for the link:
Plea for Light UI to be used when posting Screen Shots
Apr 25, 2012 1:54 PM
I would like to put in a request:
I find it almost impossible to read the settings which were used when people post either Screen Shots or Demo Movies which were made with the dark UI
It would be great if people could switch to a Light mode before making explanatory Screen Shots (Cmd/Ctrl + F2 cycles through the GUI modes instantly and painlessly!)
And, if you are planning on publishing a book, do realise that once these dark screen shots have been rasterized, downsized and reproduced in Print, they become totally illegible!!!

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"?

Using the new Crop tool | Learn Photoshop CS6 | Adobe TV

Cropping is one of the most common operations in Photoshop. So it's only fitting that the Crop tool has experienced a quantum leap in CS6. In this movie, watch how to preview the angle of your image to confirm that your crop is plumb. You can revisit a crop any time you like, so you never waste effort. And by default, the Crop tool hides pixels instead of permanently deleting them.
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I just installed the new PhotoShop CS6 on my iMac - I am used to it on Windows PC. Now, when I crop, it does not resize the image to my 640x320 px (it keeps the original size)

Photoshop CC Crop tool moves paths

Yet another issue I've found with Photoshop CC:
When using the crop tool, it moves paths after confirming the crop. (crop from the left, paths are moved to the right).
I'm on OSX 10.7, PS 14.0 x64
See images for further explanation.

It sounds like you're running into a known bug with Photoshop CC where if you have multiple subpaths on a single layer (or path), only the selected ones will be affected when you crop, resize, or rotate the image.
The workaround for now is to make sure you select all the paths in the image before you resize, crop, or rotate. The easiest way to do this is to drag over the entire image with the Path Selection tool. (Note that if you have any paths not attached to layers, you'll need to select all of them in the Paths panel before dragging with the selection tool.)
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Frustrated with new libraries tlds in JDeveloper10.1.3 in Mac OSX

Hello,
I am frustrated because I want to use a library in JDev 10.1.3. I had no problems adding it, but when I try to run my web-app I get the following
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The whole menu with the crop tool disappeared- How do I get it back?

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Minor Frustration with new crop tool movement

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