Selection Marquee won't crop

Any reason the crop option is greyed out in the Image menu for PS5.5? I was tinkering with the quick mask technique, then transforming that window and exiting quickmask mode, then I'm unable to crop. I deselelct & reselect and it's still greyed out.

I did the quickselect while an adjustment layer was current. Has the selection become attached to that?

I did the quickselect while ...

I meant Quick Mask, not select.
I just type Q to activate and deactivate.

I did the quickselect while an adjustment layer was current. Has the selection become attached to that?

Are you using the crop tool or the crop command under the image menu? Use the latter to crop a selection.

"Paul Furman" wrote in message

I did the quickselect while ...

I meant Quick Mask, not select.
I just type Q to activate and deactivate.

I did the quickselect while an adjustment layer was current. Has the selection become attached to that?

I'm trying to use the crop command under the image menu on a selection. It apparently has to do with the quick mask method, maybe it's not a normal selection any more.

This is the method I saw here for cropping with a visible mask while maintaing aspect ratio. It's nice to have the red mask to better visualize the final view:

Select all

type "Q" to turn on quick mask

type "control-T" to free transform the selection

hold shift and drag a corner to reduce the same proportioned frame

enter to commit the free transform

type "Q" to exit quick mask mode and convert the mask back into a selection.

pull down Image menu and "crop" is now greyed out???

Jasper wrote:

Are you using the crop tool or the crop command under the image menu? Use the latter to crop a selection.

"Paul Furman" wrote in message

I did the quickselect while ...

I meant Quick Mask, not select.
I just type Q to activate and deactivate.

I did the quickselect while an adjustment layer was current. Has the selection become attached to that?

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:58:38 -0700, Paul Furman
wrote:

I'm trying to use the crop command under the image menu on a selection. It apparently has to do with the quick mask method, maybe it's not a normal selection any more.

This is the method I saw here for cropping with a visible mask while maintaing aspect ratio. It's nice to have the red mask to better visualize the final view:

Select all

type "Q" to turn on quick mask

type "control-T" to free transform the selection
hold shift and drag a corner to reduce the same proportioned frame
enter to commit the free transform

type "Q" to exit quick mask mode and convert the mask back into a selection.
pull down Image menu and "crop" is now greyed out???

Jasper wrote:

Are you using the crop tool or the crop command under the image menu? Use the latter to crop a selection.

"Paul Furman" wrote in message

I did the quickselect while ...

I meant Quick Mask, not select.
I just type Q to activate and deactivate.

I did the quickselect while an adjustment layer was current. Has the selection become attached to that?

Paul

I just tried this and it worlks perfectly but I then added a layer mask and tried and the Crop command was greyed out. Basically if you make a selection and create the layer mask after you make the selection, you will not be able to crop. However, if you create the layer mask first and make your selection second, you will be able to crop. This seems to work for me

Hope this helps

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DosBoss57

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DosBoss57 wrote:

This is the method I saw here for cropping with a visible mask while maintaing aspect ratio. It's nice to have the red mask to better visualize the final view:

Select all

type "Q" to turn on quick mask

type "control-T" to free transform the selection
hold shift and drag a corner to reduce the same proportioned frame
enter to commit the free transform

type "Q" to exit quick mask mode and convert the mask back into a selection.
pull down Image menu and "crop" is now greyed out???

Paul

I just tried this and it worlks perfectly but I then added a layer mask and tried and the Crop command was greyed out. Basically if you make a selection and create the layer mask after you make the selection, you will not be able to crop. However, if you create the layer mask first and make your selection second, you will be able to crop. This seems to work for me

Hmm, maybe just a bug in PS5.5.
I tried what you said and without even creating the mask, just the act of transforming the selection from the Select menu greyed out the crop command.

Thanks for taking a stab at it.

Any other ideas for cropping while maintaining the aspect ratio and having a visual aid for blocking out the cropped part? The only thing that works is to crop the approx proportions, copy all, create a new drawing (which is based on the proportions in the clipboard), go back to the original, undo the crop, copy all and paste that to the cropped verion and move it around with the control key pressed since the paste will be bigger than the canvas.

I did find a utility with this feature called jpegcrop.exe It would be a useful thing in PS.