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1. Re: The new Crop Tool
Wight-Walker Mar 26, 2012 10:21 AM (in response to Wight-Walker)OK - I've found it. Obvious when you see it but it was there - right click & select Use Front Image Size & Reduction; not quite as straight forward as in CS5
What confused things was, that as you adjusted the crop, the width/height pixel values changed giving the impression that the final size was reducing!
Also, what's annoying is that when processing a JPG file this way, you now can't save it back directly as JPG UNLESS you flatten the image.
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2. Re: The new Crop Tool
Tai Luxon Mar 26, 2012 4:08 PM (in response to Wight-Walker)If the "Delete Cropped Pixels" option is checked then a flat image will remain flat after cropping, and you won't need to flatten to re-save a JPG.
The "Front Image" functionality can also be found in the source popup inside of the Size & Resolution dialog.
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3. Re: The new Crop Tool
PixbyTed Mar 26, 2012 4:44 PM (in response to Tai Luxon)Yes, the delete cropped pixels option is there, but why would you ever want to do it? One of the best features of the new crop tool is that it is non-destructive.
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4. Re: The new Crop Tool
Tai Luxon Mar 28, 2012 11:14 AM (in response to PixbyTed)Retaining image data outside of the canvas requires that the image data be on a non-background layer, and the JPEG file format does not support layers. It follows that if you are saving the file as a JPEG, the data outside the crop is going to have to be thrown away. So if you know you are just going to save the file as a JPEG, checking "Delete Cropped Pixels" speeds up your workflow. There may be other cases where you know you don't need those pixels and want to delete them to make your file smaller. It really depends on your workflow, but we do hope that more people will become aware of the ability to retain those pixels and take advantage of the less destructive workflow.


