cropping & crop tool

[*mark]

I've read the help pages, but this isn't working for me. I'm trying to do a straightforward crop, which I can do, but the moment I drag ANY cropped image into another document, it returns to it original size - that's counter-intuitive and counter productive.

As an ex-PS user this is not the usual behaviour. How do I render the document to stay as I have cropped it, rather than it resuming its un-cropped state in a new document? I have tried rasterising, and there is no new layer to deal with, so what is the problem? 

It doesn't explain this in the help pages as far as I can see, and I can't work out why I would need the document to jump back to its un-cropped size when the reason for cropping it, is for it to be smaller and I really have no reason (EVER) for it to resume its full size, as I can do that with the original existing document..  thx 🙂

[*mark]

Solved... with 'merge visible' command... although the document itself is only 1 untouched cropped layer, and there is no other layer created, or showing? So what am I merging exactly? Or is it the 'merge visible' command rendering the image as cropped/flattened (so to speak??) Thx

[PaulEC]

Cropping is non-destructive. If you want to make the crop permanent the easiest way is to use "Document" – "Flatten". (I've set up a shortcut "Ctrl + F", which makes it even quicker. 😉)

[*mark]

Thanks for your confirmation Paul - We probably arrived at the same conclusion that 'flattening' in some way (merge etc) renders it a permanent crop.. and yes, I'd already created that shortcut. 😀