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Adobe Photoshop cropping tool glitch

Adobe Photoshop cropping tool glitch

CNET staff
2 min read
Angus Pady described a bug in Photoshop (at least in versions 4.01 and 5.02). he claims that Abode is aware of the problem. He writes:
If you use the cropping tool with a "Fixed Target Size" in the cropping tool pallet (accessible by double clicking the crop tool) you will find that a dark line appears at the edge of the image. The edge size is dependent on the resolution of the original and final crop. To see this in an exaggerated form create a new document 5" x 5" 72 PPI RGB, white background. Set background color to white. Double click crop tool, in the crop pallet click on "fixed target size," enter 5" width and 5" height and resolution at 72 PPI. Next make a very small crop, around 10 x 10 pixels roughly. Hit enter to make crop. You will see an anti-aliased edge at the bottom of the image. When we use this cropping feature on high resolution images, the line is much smaller, usually around 1-2 pixels. But this is not very nice when you go to print and notice thin black lines at the edges of your images. Adobe says they are working on a solution.

I found that if you change the background color to match the original. the line is not as noticeable (e.g., black for dark and white for light originals). Adobe's solution is to change the interpolation in your Preferences to "Nearest Neighbor (Faster)." It may be faster but it also will degrade the quality of the image. The only other solution I have is to rubber stamp/clone out the dark line.