Help in cropping picture.

Hi, I am just trying to learn about cropping with cs 3 and when I click on crop it makes the image into the size of an ant! What do I do. Here is one I would like someone to crop and tell me how to do it, if you don't mind.

Thanks,

Teeny

p.s. the little dot you see, is my crop. LOL

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Grab the crop tool, clear all the options in the option bar, and try again. You've probably set it to fixed size, or a very low resolution.

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Once you have it all cleared out, as Tim has shown, you can crop to any ratio you wish. If you want a specific size you can set the size in the first two boxes and say 300 pixels/inch in the last box. Whenever you do this you can save the size set up under the cropping tool. After a while, you will have all the sizes that you regularly use set. Click on the double arrows between the dimensions and it will swap them.
Have Fun!

If you want a specific ratio (eg 5x7) put 5in in one box, 7in in the other, and leave the ppi field blank. If you want a specific ppi then of course fill the field in.

poloman wrote in post #6165922
Once you have it all cleared out, as Tim has shown, you can crop to any ratio you wish. If you want a specific size you can set the size in the first two boxes and say 300 pixels/inch in the last box. Whenever you do this you can save the size set up under the cropping tool. After a while, you will have all the sizes that you regularly use set. Click on the double arrows between the dimensions and it will swap them.
Have Fun!

This makes me feel like an idiot.

See, I have been using photoshop for years, using the crop tool successfully through more than 10,000 images I have taken with this camera...

And I never knew that the drop down under the crop tool saved the most common sizes. Granted, it doesn't take long to type in the sizes you want, but multiply a couple of seconds times 10,000 and then throw in all the times I fat-fingered or otherwise screwed something up and had to re-do it, you got some time lost.

*sigh* Ah well, thanks for the tip!

Don't feel bad, you must have really strong fingers!
I am one of those "I'll figure it out" kind of people. I recently started taking some tutorials and it has really been an eye opener. I think the biggest thing is being more willing to use actions in batchs where appropriate. Saves a ton of time.