Greetings,

Yeah, "Photoshop vs. Mouse" ... of course, Photoshop wins ... I knew thaaaaat.  [grin]

OK, here's my real situation ...

When I try to set a crop close to the edge of an image, something makes the cursor moves in a non-linear fashion ... the crop line will snap to either the edge of the image or to about 10 pixels from the edge (that's with the image at 66%).  ... But the crop line won't settle down in between (within that 10px area).  In order to get around this, I can increase the image zoom.  That's inconvenient because I can't see the entire cropped image at a high zoom. 

And my real questions ...

Does anyone know what's causing this ... is it windoze, the mouse driver, photoshop, ... ???

Even more important, how can I turn it off? 

Thanks ...

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Martin

Sometimes you may find that the crop tool won't let you define the area you want or it resamples your image after using it. This happens if you have numbers in the height, width, or resolution fields of the options bar (below the menu bar).

After selecting the crop tool, but before dragging out a crop rectangle, click the clear button on the options bar and the tool will behave normally again.

Danny O'Byrne  http://www.digitalartzone.co.uk/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice" Eliott Erwitt

I see that danob suggested,

click the clear button on the options bar and the tool will behave normally again.

Thanks for the tip, but that wasn't the cause ... I had not ever used those options ... and nothing was preset there for the crop tool. 

Just in case it would have an effect (or because there was some clever, covert, secret, hidden, occult, or ... setting), I did try the clear button.  The cursor still had that ~8 px 'forbidden' zone. 

Ahhhhhhhhhh ... the mysteries of Photoshop ...

Still hoping for ...

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Martin

Go to the 'View' menu, drop down to and select 'Snap To...'; follow the little right arrow and drop down to 'Document Bounds'.  If this has  a checkmark in front, your tools will 'snap' to the images' edges if you come close to them. Uncheck it to loose that snapping attitude. I have it unchecked all the time...

This is the right way to make the tools 'Snap' or 'Unsnap' to your image's edges...

We do not see things as they are. ǝɹɐ ǝʍ sɐ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ǝʍ
 

I see that girsempa advised,

Go to the 'View' menu and select 'Snap To...'

... and that made me see that and some other options that I hadn't noticed. 

That was it.  ... Thanks!

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Martin

No thanks Martin...
I admit that the View menu is not the most logical place to look for this snapping behavior... You would expect this to be located somewhere in the Preferences. As you said: Ahhhhhhhhhh ... the mysteries of Photoshop ...

We do not see things as they are. ǝɹɐ ǝʍ sɐ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ǝʍ
 

Thanks Geert. I was sure Martin's issue was due to "Snap To", but I couldn't find it. ;']

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

Okey Dokey glad you found the solution

Danny O'Byrne  http://www.digitalartzone.co.uk/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice" Eliott Erwitt

Mouse vs Tablet - who wins? :P

"In every colour, there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the Dolphin"

Rich Meadows Photography

Rich, tablet wins hands down.  But, this from Belgium did answer my very same question.  And, for certain I would not have looked in the view menu for the answer.   I knew it was snapping to, to something but that was it.  Thanks for the info and the menu option, girsempa. Seems so simple now. 

(in uploading all the credits to PS developers are given..I wonder which one put this in the view menu?)          

Tom.

Never knew about the snap option...something worth giving a try.
Thanks for the input girsempa

Thanks for the tip. 

Hey, anyone know if its possible to CROP or set guides to a ZOOMED VIEW automatically?

Thx,
Joe

If you're fed up with Photoshop's irritating snap, you can set it to "none" in the view>snap to menu.

Or set to what you want to snap and hold Alt while pressing v, then n to toggle. ( the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+; is far less obvious on a non querty keyboard)

There are no Borg. All resistance is fertile.

Sometimes when you need exact sizes - resampling, its just easier to go to Image/Resize Canvas. Make sure to unlock the background layer first tho, or your stuck with adobe's crop choice!!