[Leica] Photoshop Gurus: CS3 crop limitation question

[wbabbott3 at comcast.net (William B. Abbott III)]

Ben,

When you've selected the Crop Tool, in the upper right of the tool bar  
there is a box named "Clear" that clears all presets and restrictions  
from the tool. Have you checked that box?

Bill


On Sep 29, 2009, at 6:57 PM, Benjamin Marks wrote:

> To any LUG Photoshop gurus:
>
> I am running Cs3 on a Windows XP machine with 4 GB RAM and a 1 TB
> scratch drive. Memory allocation in CS3 is set to max. I am
> experimenting with using Bridge/Photoshop photo merge function to
> stitch 16-bit converted .dng files into long panoramas (9x25
> inches/200 MB when layers are flattened = pretty typical). So these
> are whopping big files. Here's the question:
>
> I seem to be having trouble with the crop tool. I can't drag it the
> length of the image -- it sort of stops 2/3 of the way across the
> frame. It is as if it has a limitation on the width of the crop.
> What's up? I can use the canvas size tool to roughly get where I want
> to go, but I don't understand the dynamic in Photoshop. No other
> images are open.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ben Marks
>
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