Lost side tabs on Crop

DP
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Dick_Parvin
Apr 26, 2004
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Until last week the Crop function on my Photoshop Elements 2.0 worked fine. Now I have no tabs on the sides — only on the corners. I can no longer extend or retract a side to select the area to crop.

Could the last automatic download from Adobe (made last week) have affected this function? How can I get the side tabs back?

Dick Parvin
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Jodi_Frye
Apr 26, 2004
try the ‘reset tool’ or ‘clear’ option while the crop tool is selected.
BH
Beth_Haney
Apr 26, 2004
And, Dick, you didn’t get anything in that "automatic download". There haven’t been any updates, so I strongly suggest you go to Edit>Preferences>Adobe Online and set the frequency to Never. It’ll speed up your start, and you won’t miss a thing. What you’re seeing is just a login process that never finds anything.
KW
Kyle_White
Apr 26, 2004
Select the crop tool, but before you start the crop operation, hit the ‘clear’ button on the toolbar across the top. Crop will assume a fixed aspect ratio if any of the height, width or resolution fields have anything in them and will only give you the corner handles.
DP
Dick_Parvin
Apr 26, 2004
Thanks for both suggestions. That clears up my problem!

Dick Parvin
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Dick_Smith
Apr 27, 2004
Oops, at the risk of being "flip", there’s another Dick on the forum. 😉

Dick

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