CS3 diagonal crop issue

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Posted By
Pete_Stone
May 19, 2007
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Using CS3, when I have a defined crop set ( in my case 750 px x 500 px at 72 dpi ), and first define the crop marquis on an image, then choose a corner to rotate the marquis a given amount……then click OK…..I get a crop that isn’t rotated! What gives?
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Andrei_Doubrovski
May 19, 2007
Hi Pete,
Here is a short movie about the Crop Tool <http://simplephotoshop.com/photoshop_tools/crop_toolf.htm> (Flash plugin required)

SimplePhotoshop.com <http://simplephotoshop.com/>
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chrisjbirchall
May 19, 2007
Think of an image in terms of being a box. You can stand a box on its top, bottom or sides. But when you try to stand it on a corner…

If you want a diagonal "looking" crop, try this:

* Make a new layer

* Make the Background layer into a "proper" layer by renaming it.

* Move the new, empty, layer to beneath the image layer.

* Go Image>Canvas Size and make the canvas bigger by 50%

* Select the image layer and go Image>Transform then rotate the layer.

The "box" is still sitting correctly on the ground, but your image is displayed upon it in a diagonal fashion.

Hope this helps.

Chris.
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Mathias_Vejerslev
May 19, 2007
I think this might be a known bug.
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Don_McCahill
May 21, 2007
I’m not sure it is a bug, but a feature. It is impossible to have an image in PS that is not a rectangle. The rotate crop is so that you can take an off kilter image and straighten it. To me it works exactly as it should.
CB
charles badland
Jun 26, 2007
It’s a bug.

If you enter a defined crop set that down-samples the image, and rotate the crop tool, it does not crop as expected. Been that way for years.
I’ve described it in-person to John Nack… shown it in-person to Julieanne Kost… Chris Cox had a Quality Engineer contact me to send examples…

still yet to be fixed.

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