2 Replies Latest reply on Apr 29, 2013 2:58 PM by JJMack

    Difficulty cropping

    graph22 Level 1
    graph22 Apr 29, 2013 10:47 AM

      Hi,

       

      I'm trying to use the rect marquee tool to do a selection and then crop a photo but when I do nothing happens.

       

      A couple of strange things have/are happening:

       

      -At one point, while I was in transform selection I there was added space around the marquee, which became the new edge, as opposed to the marquee itself.

       

      -The marquee is in the shape of a rounded rectangle.

       

      Any idea what's going on/how to fix this?

       

      Thanks!

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        • 1. Re: Difficulty cropping
          MikeGondek Adobe Community Professional & MVP
          MikeGondek Apr 29, 2013 12:34 PM (in response to graph22)

          Did you feather, that would give you a rounded rectangle from a rectangle?

           

          What happens with a soft slection is the marquee goes roughly around the centere of your selection, but using crop goes to the outere edge adn can oftne look like nohting is happening cause the outer edge ofthe soft selection may be past the edge of your document

          • 2. Re: Difficulty cropping
            JJMack Most Valuable Participant
            JJMack Apr 29, 2013 2:58 PM (in response to graph22)

            graph22 wrote:

             

             

            -At one point, while I was in transform selection I there was added space around the marquee, which became the new edge, as opposed to the marquee itself.

             

            -The marquee is in the shape of a rounded rectangle.

             

             

            Can you post screen captures of the above two.

             

            Transform Selection should display the transform bounding box with the 8 control points and a ninth control point in the center.

             

            A rounded corner selection sounds like feathering