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Has anybody ever found that the crop tool doesn’t work very well when you try to do rotated crops?
It seems as if when the whole image fits on the screen at 100%, it would work fine.
But if I’m zoomed out from a large image, or at 100% on an image that’s too big to fit one screen, the cropping gets stretched all weird.
For example, when trying to crop the an image of a character so that all his limbs would fit into the image and rotated… approx 45 degrees, with the feet near the edges… the image gets cropped all wrong and a foot would be missing.
My gut feeling is that there is something wrong with the cropping engine… as if it uses on-screen data to crop or it does some kind of guesswork algorithm that just isn’t effective.
Rotated cropping used to work perfectly fine, then in CS it suddenly died. I’m sure that in Photoshop 6 it was great, but I am unsure about Photoshop 7’s crop tool (although I suspect it was fine too).
Anyways, the workaround that I use is to rotate canvas before I crop… but that’s quite a step backwards in productivity. Maybe CS rotates the canvas funny before cropping?
It would be great to see this problem patched. *hopes Adobe monitors bug reports in forums*
It seems as if when the whole image fits on the screen at 100%, it would work fine.
But if I’m zoomed out from a large image, or at 100% on an image that’s too big to fit one screen, the cropping gets stretched all weird.
For example, when trying to crop the an image of a character so that all his limbs would fit into the image and rotated… approx 45 degrees, with the feet near the edges… the image gets cropped all wrong and a foot would be missing.
My gut feeling is that there is something wrong with the cropping engine… as if it uses on-screen data to crop or it does some kind of guesswork algorithm that just isn’t effective.
Rotated cropping used to work perfectly fine, then in CS it suddenly died. I’m sure that in Photoshop 6 it was great, but I am unsure about Photoshop 7’s crop tool (although I suspect it was fine too).
Anyways, the workaround that I use is to rotate canvas before I crop… but that’s quite a step backwards in productivity. Maybe CS rotates the canvas funny before cropping?
It would be great to see this problem patched. *hopes Adobe monitors bug reports in forums*
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