Inconsistent Cropping

Anthony Westkamper

• 21. März 2017 03:12

I am sure there is a rational explanation for this, but sometimes when I select the cropping tool it immediately gives me a large vert cross with arrow heads on the ends, requiring me to go to the margins and adjust them in to accomplish the cropping I wish. Other times it gives me a little cross cursor which allows me to click and drag to open and control the size and aspect ratio of the window. I haven't been able to discern why, or how to control which I get. I usually prefer the little cursor so I can just form the window quickly. Anyone know how I can get consistent results?

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • 21. März 2017 08:06

  

  If there is no crop already you will get the "little cross cursor" straight away, although you could also drag in from a corner of the image.
  
  If there is a crop already and you want to start a new crop instead of adjusting an existing one, you can hold down the shift key and start a new crop which ignores the existing one.
  
  Ian

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 21. März 2017 11:54

  Thanks for the trick, Ian !!

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  SFA

  • 22. März 2017 03:05

  [quote="RedAdmiral" wrote:
  I am sure there is a rational explanation for this, but sometimes when I select the cropping tool it immediately gives me a large vert cross with arrow heads on the ends, requiring me to go to the margins and adjust them in to accomplish the cropping I wish. Other times it gives me a little cross cursor which allows me to click and drag to open and control the size and aspect ratio of the window. I haven't been able to discern why, or how to control which I get. I usually prefer the little cursor so I can just form the window quickly. Anyone know how I can get consistent results?

  
  
  If you get a pre-cropped image that you have not knowingly cropped yourself the typical reasons for that might include:
  
  Rotation correction
  
  Lens correction automatically applied
  
  A preset or style which includes a crop to dimensions that are different to the original sensor captured image dimensions.
  
  Copying settings from one image to another when the orientation of the image is different - e.g landscape/portrait.
  
  
  
  Things like that.
  
  
  HTH.
  
  
  
  Grant

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