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    Crop image. It can't be this hard

    I'm not new to imaging software, but I recently got a PS subscription for the purpose of editing some old family pictures.

    I open a picture in PS. It has some jagged edges and a whitish band across the bottom. I select the crop tool and scribe around the part I want to keep. I hit the crop tool again or pick crop from the menu. The visual looks like the crop worked.

    Next I set the canvas area bigger so I can add a border around the picture.

    When the canvas size increases, the ugly bits that I cropped off are back again.

    Why?

    Please help.
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    Re: Crop image. It can't be this hard

    I think this is due to when cropping you have not selected the option to Delete Cropped Pixels. Without selecting the delete option the cropped areas are merely hidden

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      Re: Crop image. It can't be this hard

      Thank you so much! I was getting very frustrated.

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