Fix for: Funky behavior from PhotoShop

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Rosanne Cleveland-King
May 30, 2006
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I was having a problem cropping in Photoshop. Every time I tried, I only got the bounding box with four corners and when I tried to "pull out" the edges, I got the double arrow tool that tilts the picture. A friend told me how to fix this glitch. Close Photoshop, and while reopening it, press down Control, Shift and Alt. You are asked if you want to: Delete settings file, answer yes.
Worked perfectly. Perhaps that fix works for other Photoshop woes as well.

Smiles,
Rosanne

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edjh
May 30, 2006
wrote:
I was having a problem cropping in Photoshop. Every time I tried, I only got the bounding box with four corners and when I tried to "pull out" the edges, I got the double arrow tool that tilts the picture. A friend told me how to fix this glitch. Close Photoshop, and while reopening it, press down Control, Shift and Alt. You are asked if you want to: Delete settings file, answer yes.
Worked perfectly. Perhaps that fix works for other Photoshop woes as well.
Smiles,
Rosanne
Yes. It’s called Trashing Preferences or Resetting Preferences and is the cure for many things.


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Tacit
May 31, 2006
In article <%vZeg.65149$>,
wrote:

I was having a problem cropping in Photoshop. Every time I tried, I only got the bounding box with four corners and when I tried to "pull out" the edges, I got the double arrow tool that tilts the picture. A friend told me how to fix this glitch. Close Photoshop, and while reopening it, press down Control, Shift and Alt. You are asked if you want to: Delete settings file, answer yes.
Worked perfectly.

But it was probably unnecessary.

Any time you notice a tool doing something strange, look at the Options bar. You probably have set it to some option other than Normal.

Almost every tool in Photoshop has many, many different modes and options that you can set. You set them all in the Options bar. Additionally, almost every tool in the toolbar will do something different if you hold down the Option or Alt key on the keyboard as you use it, and most will do something different if you hold down the Shift key or the Command or Control key as well.

In your case, if your Crop tool does not allow you to resize it, glance at the Options bar. You probably have numbers typed into the boxes where it says Width and Height. All you need to do is take the numbers out of those boxes, that’s all.


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