Cropping a pic is creating a 64gig temp file!

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JJLee138
Apr 18, 2008
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Not sure what’s going on here, but when I crop a picture I’m immediately filling all the available space on my hard drive which happens to be 64gigs! Once I get the scratch disk error due to filling up the hd and click Ok the temp file automatically gets rid of it’s self.

The crop settings are

Width=800in
Height=600in
Resolution=400 pixels/INCH

I have NO IDEA what the default crop settings should be and am wondering if someone really knocked these out of whack? Thanks so much for any help you can provide!

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Phosphor
Apr 18, 2008
64GB is a pretty huge Temp file for Photoshop. That will happen if you’re working on HUGE files, or if you leave Photoshop open and you’re working on the same image for a LONG time.

But as long as it goes away when you quit and relaunch, things are working as they are supposed to.

But, now for your REAL problem.

All you need to do is click on the "CLEAR" button in the Options Bar when you have your Crop Tool selected. Default settings for the Crop Tool are to have the Width, Height and Resolution fields empty.

With those settings you posted, you’re asking Photoshop to take whatever area you define by the crop tool and expand it to a file that is 320,000px × 240,000px. That’s a dang big file, by anyone’s standards.

I’m kind of surprised that doesn’t just freeze your whole system…That says good things about your system!
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curt_young
Apr 18, 2008
IS the image size really 800 inches by 600 inches? That would be giganormus.
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dave_milbut
Apr 18, 2008
Width=800in
Height=600in

800 inches by 600 inches?!! OH NOES!!11!!!!

make it 800px by 600px and you’ll be cool. 🙂
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JJLee138
Apr 18, 2008
LOL! You guys rock. Yea, I’m just a simple desktop support guy, but that crop setting looked a little off. I mean 800×600 inches is a billboard lol. The actual user is out for the day so I couldn’t ask if they just typo’ed or not.

Well I changed that from in/px and I think we have a winner : ) Thanks for the confirmation on those outlandish settings!
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Phosphor
Apr 18, 2008
"… 800×600 inches is a billboard lol."

A HUGE billboard at that (67ftW × 50ftH, quite a bit larger than even the largest standard size), and at resolution that’s 1100% the resolution of any standard billboard I’ve ever designed and printed.
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Sergei_Urlof
Apr 19, 2008
I used to have to kill the Ps process every time I tried to crop because it would take "forever" to crop, until I realized I somehow had inches for units vice pixels.
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dave_milbut
Apr 19, 2008
until I realized I somehow had inches for units vice pixels.

if you leave off the measurement ("px" or whatever) it’ll default to your PS SYSTEM default measurement in preferences. that’s usually inches in a USA system. so if you just type in 800, it’s going to say "ok boss, 800 inches it is!"

you HAVE to type in the measurement "px" if you want pixels.

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