I know that if you choose "Delete Cropped Pixels" in the crop tool, that it will preserve the background layer, as a background layer. However, I wished that I could still maintain this function when cropping without the delete cropped pixels option checked as well. It seems like a silly thing to have to recreate that layer as a background manually every time. Is there a script out there that can do this?
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Why do you need a "background" layer specifically? I kind of wish no such thing existed and all Photoshop documents had an unlocked start layer without the need to set things to transparent to achieve that.– ScottCommented Mar 25, 2015 at 20:16
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The reasoning behind this is that the background layer is a special layer that must be the size of the canvas (i.e. the pixel dimensions).
Other layers can have pixel extents that are larger than the defined canvas size. I believe that Adobe calls this "big data."
Since you are opting to not delete pixels when cropping, then the background layer needs to be converted to a "normal" layer in order to preserve the pixel data.
