Viewing the Selection Marquee While Cropping

When the crop shading area feature is enabled, shading appears outside the crop rectangle, making it easier to see the projected results of your crop. However, if you have a selection marquee active in your image, the part of the selection marquee within the crop rectangle disappears as you adjust the crop rectangle, which can be counter-productive. If you want to be able to view the selection marquee at the same time as you adjust the crop rectangle, disable the Crop shading area feature by choosing File...Preferences...General Program Preferences, clicking on Transparency and Shading in the left panel, and UNchecking 'Enable crop shade area' in the Shading panel on the right. You might want to enable this feature again after your crop has been applied.