My crop tool going haywire!

Okay, I don't know if I made the mistake or clicked on something. But usually (like yesterday) when I would crop a photo, the box corner closest to my pointer/crop icon followed very closely where every I moved, almost on top of it ( I liked it that way) and now it hardly follows, it stays in one shape, I can not make it longer or move it, it is just going beserks. The only way I can move it or stretch it is by grabbing the corners, where yesterday there were 3 boxes on all sides, top, bottom, left side, right side, the third boxes being in center. I do not know what I did wrong, but I want it back to the way it was! Can somebody please help me!

I'm assuming you are using Photoshop?? You didn't say. If so, select the crop tool and look at the options bar near the top of the frame. If you have numbers in the options for width and height that will cause the crop box to constrain it's proportions. If so, there is a "clear" button on the right side of the options bar. That should solve your problem.

Try hitting the Clear button in the toolbar once you select the crop tool, Andrea. Could be you have it preset to crop a certain size.

You beat me by milliseconds Keith!

Also check that your caps lock is not on

I will definitely try that, thank you all for your help! It worked completely and I learned something new! Thank you all!

Andrea, a great place to learn all of those little tricks and settings is Chris Orwig's 100 Tips book. The link takes you to the Amazon Kindle version, but you can get the print copy if you'd like. Now that Amazon has a free Kindle for PC app, you can get to this book right on your PC. If desired, you can download the Kindle app here. Either way, it's a good resource book for things such as tool quirks, etc.

Thank you so much Paul, I will definitely look into that.