crop tool stuck on 1 pixel

[Jonathan Ziegler]

Egads! This is a dumb question, but when you have the crop tool selected, look at the tool info up top. There should be “width,” “height,” “resolution” and, on the right, a “clear” button. You likely have “1px” in the width and height fields and should be able to click on “clear” to revert back to the default Crop tool.

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Failing that, trash the prefs (Users/[user name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CS5 Settings). Hope that helps.

I am running CS3 on this machine so it may be different with CS5.1.

Jonathan Ziegler
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[Alan Stephens]

The clear button fixed it! I never looked at that function,
I just always crop manually.

Thanks!

Alan Stephens

[Jonathan Ziegler]

Hey no worries, it happens to all of us. I use the size features for things like client avatars and such so I can quickly get a huge logo down to a simple jpeg with a crop and a resize in one go. Then I always forget to clear it… 😉

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

[Brandon Best]

Thanks for this comment. I never noticed the cropping toolbar.

[Mark Richards]

hi,
i have the same problem but i am really struggling to find this reset tool,
i have read several forums and explanations as to where it is, but i just can not see it.

I am highlighting a cropped selection…

i can see the following:
info toolbar
navigation toolbar, histogram
as well as history, actions, brushes, clone source, top presets etc

and i can’t do much with anyone of the above anyway, as things are like greyed out or unselectable and give me a beep.

i am using cs3 on a mac 10.5
thanks

[Mark Richards]

its ok, ive found it

[Alan Stephens]

Sorry but I have forgotten. however,I think I found it. open an image and select a crop. In the upper center you may see a counter clockwise arrow, and click it to reset. you have to have a the crop tool engaged in a crop but not completed. btw I’m on CS6.
You may also try the menu, window/workspace/reset …
let me know if it works.

Alan Stephens

Mac Book Pro 2.6, quad i7, 8 GB Ram, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB, OS X Mavericks 10.9.2
Thunderbolt Promise raid drive

[Karen Zethmayr]

Dunno if you’ve seen this answer or not; I don’t see it in the thread; the 1 stitch you seem to be missing is one I also missed at first:

In the CROP tool, the only time you see the option to CLEAR either “width” or “height” is when you first open the tool. Once you start dragging a marquis to set those params visually, that option goes away.

One more thing you may or may not already know; you can make those tool options (and all the pallets) appear and disappear by toggling the TAB key …unless of course you happen to be in the type tool … oooops… If you accidentally or otherwise made the tool options disappear, you can toggle them back again.

Just 1 more thought: there are no stupid questions.