CS3 Panorama Crop Limitation - Question/Help

[Benjamin Marks]

hey folks:

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

 

[Benjamin Marks]

Answer received: a helpful member of the LUG chimed in with a fix. Apparently when in the upper right of the Crop tool bar there is a box named 'Clear' that clears all presets and restrictions from the tool.

With thanks to Bill Abbott.

Don't have any idea how the limitations got in there. But now they are out and I can crop to my heart's content.

Ben Marks