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April 4, 2018

P: Constrain Crop not saving in preset

  • April 4, 2018
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I posted this on the adobe.com forums, but it may get more traction here....

Since updating to LR 7.3, all my presets were imported and can be used. But none of them allow the Constrain Crop option under Transform to be set by default.

Even if I apply my preset, click Constrain Crop and "Update with current settings" on the preset, it still doesn't re-apply.

Running Windows 10 64bit.

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johnrellis
Legend
April 5, 2018
Great, thanks.
Legend
April 5, 2018
Thanks. I've asked engineering to take a look at this?
johnrellis
Legend
April 5, 2018
The underlying cause is that the new preset implementation, shared with Adobe Camera Raw, ignores the Constrain Crop setting in presets. This is most likely because ACR doesn't expose that setting in its user interface for some reason, and even though ACR will correctly display a LR-edited photo with the setting, ACR won't save the setting in a .xmp file.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a raw image in Develop.

2. In the Transform panel, click Auto and Constrain Crop.

3. In the Presets panel, create a preset, click Check None, then check Transform. Save the preset.

4. In the Presets panel, right-click the preset and do Show In Finder. 

5. Edit the preset's .xmp file and observe that the following line is incorrectly missing:

   crs:CropConstrainToWarp="1"
6. In the text editor, add that line above the other settings lines. 

7. Restart LR.

8. Apply the preset to another raw photo. Observe in the Transform panel that Constrain Crop is incorrectly unchecked. 

9. In the Transform panel, again check Constrain Crop.

10. Do Photo > Edit In > Open As Smart Object In Photoshop. Observe that the Constrain Crop setting has been observed in ACR's rendering.

11. In the ACR window, do Save Settings to save the photo's settings in a .xmp file.

12. Open the saved .xmp file in a text editor and observe that it is incorrectly missing the CropConstrainToWarp setting.