Weird photoshop 7 problem – help needed

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Dec 15, 2003
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I am posting this for a friend, who called me for help assuming I had the answer…..Well, I was stumped.

While using the Rectangular Marquee tool, trying to draw a box around a picture to crop it, it behaves as if he is holding down the "shift" key allowing him to make perfect squares. I asked him if maybe his shift key was stuck and he said it wasn’t. What could possibly be wrong here? He said this just started recently. I asked him to try the "crop" tool and it does just the opposite, only allowing him to draw rectangles with no ability to pull the sides. Very strange behavior for PS7. He is using Mac OS9 (if that matters).

Thanks for any help.
Ken
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steven
Dec 15, 2003
Weird Photoshop problems almost always originate from the toolbar (where all the options for the tool are).

I would guess that your friend has the "Style" setting on the toolbar for the Marquee tool set to "Fixed Aspect Ratio". Just change it back to "Normal"

As for the crop tool, if the "Width" and "Height" boxes are filled in, it will keep the crop rectangle in those proportions, and not allow "pulling the sides" 🙂

-Steven

"K9660R" wrote in message
I am posting this for a friend, who called me for help assuming I had the answer…..Well, I was stumped.

While using the Rectangular Marquee tool, trying to draw a box around a
picture
to crop it, it behaves as if he is holding down the "shift" key allowing
him to
make perfect squares. I asked him if maybe his shift key was stuck and he
said
it wasn’t. What could possibly be wrong here? He said this just started recently. I asked him to try the "crop" tool and it does just the
opposite,
only allowing him to draw rectangles with no ability to pull the sides.
Very
strange behavior for PS7. He is using Mac OS9 (if that matters).
Thanks for any help.
Ken
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jwm2
Dec 16, 2003
Steve,
The one that always gets me. I accidentaly hit the "num lock", I get all kinds of goofy
stuff going on until I realize what I did.
John M.

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