jbshanks
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Q: Why is cropping tool grayed out?

I use the latest Aperture 3.3.2. Got a picture ready to crop but cropping tool is grayed out? Anyone know why? The image is online and lets me print.

Thanks

Jerry

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion, i7 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM, SSD & HDD

Posted on Aug 26, 2012 7:44 PM

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Q: Why is cropping tool grayed out?

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Aug 26, 2012 10:16 PM in response to jbshanks
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    Aug 26, 2012 10:16 PM in response to jbshanks

    The only way I can make the crop tool greyed out is by taking the original image flles offline or by not selecting any image at all:

    crop.pngmissing.png

    Are you sure, that you had the image selected and it is online, when you tried to crop? "Print" is not greyed out for offline originals, but it will not actually let you print

     

    But if your image is online, and you have selected it, and you still cannot crop, your User preferences may be corrupted; then try to quit Aperture, log off and on again (to ensure Aperture really quits), and move the User Preferences (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist) from the user library to the Desktop - see the Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics on how to do this.

     

    If this does not help, try the other trouble shooting measure from this document, unless you tried that already.

     

    Regards

    Léonie

  • by William Lloyd,

    William Lloyd William Lloyd Aug 27, 2012 7:21 AM in response to jbshanks
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    Aug 27, 2012 7:21 AM in response to jbshanks

    Any chance you are in quick preview mode?  If you hit the 'p' key can you now crop?

  • by Kirby Krieger,

    Kirby Krieger Kirby Krieger Aug 27, 2012 7:27 AM in response to William Lloyd
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    Aug 27, 2012 7:27 AM in response to William Lloyd

    Current version of Aperture auto-cancels Quick Preview mode when Crop is selected. 

  • by jbshanks,

    jbshanks jbshanks Aug 27, 2012 7:10 PM in response to jbshanks
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    Aug 27, 2012 7:10 PM in response to jbshanks

    Thanks for the help everyone. This is strange... So after not being able to crop yesterday, I quit Aperture for the night and just opened it tonight. Oddly, I got the registration window asking me to submit my info (I did this years ago). After I sent it, I opened the images up and was able to crop them...the same ones from yesterday that I couldn't crop. ??????

     

    It's fixed but do you know why this happened? I'd like to fix anything that might be going wrong under the hood.

     

    Thanks,

    Jerry