how to turn on/off cropping easily?

"peter" wrote in message

Is there a way to easily turn on/off a particular cropping the same way adjustment layers can be easily turned on/off?

Right now I have to save the cropped file in a different file name; if I change my mind about the crop, I have to go back to the previous file and lose edits since cropping. This is not very convenient.

In the options bar for the crop tool at the top of your screen, select "hide" instead of "delete." This has the effect of merely changing the canvas size, leaving everything outside the borders intact, just hidden. Selecting "delete removes the pixels permanently and reduces the file size accordingly.

Peadge 🙂

peter wrote:

Is there a way to easily turn on/off a particular cropping the same way adjustment layers can be easily turned on/off?

Right now I have to save the cropped file in a different file name; if I change my mind about the crop, I have to go back to the previous file and lose edits since cropping. This is not very convenient.

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Peadge wrote:

"peter" wrote in message

Is there a way to easily turn on/off a particular cropping the same way adjustment layers can be easily turned on/off?

Right now I have to save the cropped file in a different file name; if I change my mind about the crop, I have to go back to the previous file and lose edits since cropping. This is not very convenient.

In the options bar for the crop tool at the top of your screen, select "hide" instead of "delete." This has the effect of merely changing the canvas size, leaving everything outside the borders intact, just hidden. Selecting "delete removes the pixels permanently and reduces the file size accordingly.

Peadge 🙂

When I try this, the hide and delete are grayed out.

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JD..

"JD" wrote in message

When I try this, the hide and delete are grayed out.

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JD..

Your layer is probably locked. Double click on your layer in the Layers Palette to "make a layer" and they re-try.

Peadge 🙂

Peadge wrote:

"JD" wrote in message

When I try this, the hide and delete are grayed out.

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JD..

Your layer is probably locked. Double click on your layer in the Layers Palette to "make a layer" and they re-try.

Peadge 🙂

Learn something new everyday. Thanks Peadge!

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JD..

Double click on your layer in the Layers Palette

Alt-double click will save you a prompt…

Cheers, Jason
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On 05-Jan-05 07:12, The Gadget Shop wrote:

Double click on your layer in the Layers Palette

Alt-double click will save you a prompt…

Cheers, Jason
Folio: www.gadgetaus.com/photos

Thanks!

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JD..

Peadge wrote:

"peter" wrote in message

Is there a way to easily turn on/off a particular cropping the same way adjustment layers can be easily turned on/off?

Right now I have to save the cropped file in a different file name; if I change my mind about the crop, I have to go back to the previous file and lose edits since cropping. This is not very convenient.

In the options bar for the crop tool at the top of your screen, select "hide" instead of "delete." This has the effect of merely changing the canvas size, leaving everything outside the borders intact, just hidden. Selecting "delete removes the pixels permanently and reduces the file size accordingly.

Peadge 🙂

News to me. Nice one Peadge!
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Mike Russell wrote:

Peadge wrote:

"peter" wrote in message

Is there a way to easily turn on/off a particular cropping the same way adjustment layers can be easily turned on/off?

Right now I have to save the cropped file in a different file name; if I change my mind about the crop, I have to go back to the previous file and lose edits since cropping. This is not very convenient.

In the options bar for the crop tool at the top of your screen, select "hide" instead of "delete." This has the effect of merely changing the canvas size, leaving everything outside the borders intact, just hidden. Selecting "delete removes the pixels permanently and reduces the file size accordingly.

Peadge 🙂

News to me. Nice one Peadge!

Didn’t know that one either. Nice.

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"edjh" wrote in message

Mike Russell wrote:

In the options bar for the crop tool at the top of your screen, select "hide" instead of "delete." This has the effect of merely changing the canvas size, leaving everything outside the borders intact, just hidden. Selecting "delete removes the pixels permanently and reduces the file size accordingly.

Peadge 🙂

News to me. Nice one Peadge!

Didn’t know that one either. Nice.

I think I saw that in one of the recent issues of Photoshop User. Lately, I’ve been keeping an eye on my options bar for cool little things like that. I thought crop always got rid of extraneous stuff. It’s cool to have an option.

Peadge 🙂

"Peadge" wrote in message

In the options bar for the crop tool at the top of your screen, select "hide" instead of "delete." This has the effect of merely changing the canvas size, leaving everything outside the borders intact, just hidden. Selecting "delete removes the pixels permanently and reduces the file size accordingly.

Peadge 🙂

Thanks! This is nice. I wish it works for rotated crop as well but when I clicked on the hidden button, it changed the rotated crop frame into a larger unrotated frame 🙁

I also wish I can have multiple hidden crops (only one would be active at a time, of course) so I can quickly switch between different crops to pick the best one.