Photoshop CC 2015: Cropping issues with artboards

There are some known issues with cropping when using an Artboard document. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Are you just trying to expand the canvas?

When in an Artboard document, the document "canvas" will automatically expand for you if you place something outside the bounds. You shouldn't need to use the Crop tool at all.

Are you on Mac or Windows? Could you make a video of what you're seeing? May help us to reproduce or troubleshoot.

Mac OS X 10.10.3 Sure, here is a short screencast: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpb6gkxhe58... and the PSD file used there: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9wfniuobjpm...

I also spent several hours with Prabir Kumar Roy from tech support trying to solve this. We tried to reset prefs (only solved the canvas-color problem). But the random canvas resizes and layers repositioning while cropping is a consistent bug, worked the same on my computer and on a computer of the support guy as well. However after 100 minutes of remote-desktop assistance he gave up and said that it's not a bug, and I just should not use crop tool and artboards in one psd — "it's just designed this way".

Should I wait for a bug fix any time soon, or it's really 'designed this way'? :)

Imagine that red rectangles here are artboards, where my iPhone app screens are. All the blue elements of the same psd don't belong to any artboard. So there are plenty of layers that need to be outside of artboards: text, arrows, background. And I don't need any of them while mirroring artboards to my phone, so they are just there, on canvas. And I need to resize it while working with the document.

So yeah, I'm trying to expand the canvas while working with artboards.

Here's the real example:

This is what happens while trying to crop.

"And I need to resize it while working with the document."

Sorry if I'm not understanding correctly, but why do you need to resize? Why do you want to recrop? In Artboards "mode", you essentially have an infinite canvas. The canvas is actually still there, just blended into the background. If you need more space to put a new artboard (or a non-artboard object like text), you can just draw that and the canvas will automatically expand for you--no need to recrop and expand it yourself.

When you use Device Preview, it should default to only showing Artboards, though you can select to show the entire document as well if you like.

Firstly this need was because I wanted to implement artboard-approach in my old non-artboard documents. But this aspect aside, export / save for web for instance. I need the whole 'map' of my app exported in a single image. So when I rely on automatic expansion, this is basically what I get:



The amount of white space is unpredictable and not even symmetric.

And this is what I need:



So this can only be achieved by manual recropping (or disabling the auto-crop and cropping by hand all along). Sometimes this even works fine. But most of the time it doesn't..

(red rectangles above are 640x1136 shapes, each in the 640x136 artboard, the rest of layers are not inside artboards)

I would strongly recommend using the new "Export As" feature instead of Save for Web when using Artboards. Save for Web, now marked Legacy, is not fully aware of Artboards, so you will get some unexpected behavior. The Export As feature is much more efficient in most cases as well, as it was specifically designed to work well with Artboards.

If you do still need to use Save for Web, you can turn off the auto-expanding behavior by selecting the Artboards tool (under the Move tool), click on the Gear icon, and uncheck "Auto-size Canvas". You should be able to crop and re-crop without things moving around or the canvas growing/shrinking. Note that this preference stays with the document.

But as I said earlier, this feature was designed to work best with Export As, not Save for Web.

Ok thanks alot, I got it. Just tried switching off auto-crop and it fixed the regular crop issue. (if any crop-related issues will return I'll report)

There were several more strange things about artboards, I will try reproduce them. For instance artboards normally have white background color, but sometimes they are just transparent.

Or this one: https://www.dropbox.com/s/udylrx6gwvp... (artboard background is 1px smaller than any shape or fill inside it)

Great release, say great thank you to the team for me!

oh I just realised that the transparent background is only transparent if you have a solid color layer in the back, outside of artboards, I guess it makes sense.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Photoshop CC 2015 artboard crop tool buggy and flashing.

It's going to give me a seizure.

To duplicate this behavior, enter your art board layout and select the crop tool by clicking on the 5th tool in your tool bar, or pressing the "C" key. Upon re sizing the area, you will notice the area flashes and is difficult to manipulate. It also does not save the size of the art board that you've selected. This is further causing problems when you try to save the entire art board as an image, rather than the individual art boards themselves.

I also have to reset preferences once a day to still be able to choose canvas color.

I needed to add a background on my canvas that stretched the full width in order to export the full artboard image. It auto-cropped otherwise

I am also having a problem with canvas size. If I add an image thats larger than the canvas size and the art board it resizes and adds extra space all around my fixed size canvas size on export using the legacy export.

As soon as I added the large image in my art board it wants to resize adding space around everything.

It was working fine as soon as I added the image. This has never happened before in my 17 years of using photoshop and I know this is not just how the program is so is it a bug in the latest release of 2015.1.2?