Bizarre CS2 crop behavior

[jetcode]

I am using the CS2 crop tool on some JPG's and I select the content I want to keep. I then go to image/crop and my image is cropped a little but not precisely at the selection. It's like there is a bounding box or some form of edge limit keeping me from cropping exactly what I want to crop. If I select too close to an edge no crop happens at all. What is going on? Am I in some kind of crop mode or is CS2 misbehaving?

Joe

[Alan Davenport]

It sounds like the "snap" mode is on. It allegedly helps with selections, but it's a royal PITA when cropping. Go to the View menu to turn it off.

[JW Dewdney]

you probably have it set up to crop by ratio or absolute number of pixels. Check your options box in the bar above.

[Brian Ellis]

If you have dimensions typed in the height and width box at the top of the screen you'll get the effect you describe. If they're there just delete them.

[Alan Davenport]

...so many ways to do things in Photoshop. So many of them wrong....

[Eric James]

It sounds like the "snap" mode is on. It allegedly helps with selections, but it's a royal PITA when cropping. Go to the View menu to turn it off.

Thanks for that Alan!

[jetcode]

Ok, here's the issue. The Feather control had a setting of 5 pixels. It was a guarantee the crop could be feathered.

Thanks for the offerings - Joe

[Greg Miller]

It sounds like the "snap" mode is on. It allegedly helps with selections, but it's a royal PITA when cropping. Go to the View menu to turn it off.

If you press and hold CTRL (command for Macs) while selecting the crop the snap feature is temporarily disabled.