CS scratch disk problem

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Settyboy
Jul 26, 2004
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I recently upgraded from PS 7 to CS. When trying to crop a 1600×1200 72 dpi screen capture, I recieved a "scratch disk full" error. After ensuring all my drives were available in the settings, I tried it again. I watched as PS took up over 16 gigs of space in temp files before locking up. I never had this problem with version 7 and am wondering if this is perhaps some "Crop Bug" with CS. The original file size is under 6 megs and I can’t see how PS would need over 16 gigs to perform a single action. Thanks 🙂
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Settyboy
Jul 26, 2004
Nevermind, I figured out that there was a height value of 200 inches for the crop tool. Beats me why it was there. Once removed, everything worked as it should

I recently upgraded from PS 7 to CS. When trying to crop a 1600×1200 72 dpi screen capture, I recieved a "scratch disk full" error. After ensuring all my drives were available in the settings, I tried it again. I watched as PS took up over 16 gigs of space in temp files before locking up. I never had this problem with version 7 and am wondering if this is perhaps some "Crop Bug" with CS. The original file size is under 6 megs and I can’t see how PS would need over 16 gigs to perform a single action. Thanks 🙂
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JPS
Jul 30, 2004
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Settyboy <Settyboy@<remove>socal.rr.com> wrote:

Nevermind, I figured out that there was a height value of 200 inches for the crop tool. Beats me why it was there. Once removed, everything worked as it should

It’s a good idea to hit "Clear" when you first bring up the Crop dialogue. Then, anything you drag on the image will be an exact, pixel-for-pixel crop, and you can see the pixel size in the "Info" tool. I prefer this direct pixel approach as a default, because it has no surprises.

Most inch or DPI settings only make things confusing, and increase the chance of unwanted sampling. You only need to resample in the Crop tool if you’re doing rotation or perspective correction. Plain old cropping is best done with pixels, IMO.
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