P: Bug in “Constrain crop” – LR 4.1 RC

Thank you, LRuser24, for your detailed researches and informations - they helped Adobe to solve my problem!

Seems to be fixed now in 4.4 final.

Note: My "steps to reproduce" are no longer fully valid because "constrain crop" now seems to behave a little different: With manual perspecive correction, it now tries to fill out the whole image instead of "centering in" like before. So to get the same basis for testing, you have to make the crop rectangle a little bit smaller after activating "constrain crop".

Now in LR 4.4, the canvas can be correctly dragged, and the crop rectangle always stays inside the constrained area. Rotating and resizing the crop rectangle seems to work correctly, too.

There are still some quirks when dragging the canvas for a relatively large crop rectangle. When a corner of the crop rectangle hits the edge of the constrained area, it correctly stops there, but when dragging further, it sometimes jumps to the opposite side and back. However, that does not restrict the correct movement of the canvas and is only a minor nuisance.

Edit: Just noticed that this was also mentioned in the 4.4 readme - or at least a bug connected with it (first point in list).

Well, the bug is still there in version 4.3 (Win7 64 bit), and I still think it is a rather serious one because it affects some of the basic image manipulations (rotating and cropping) when using perspective correction... or am I perhaps misjudging this?

This bug is still there in the 4.1 final...

I would like to know, what filing means. Reporting the bug to Adobe directly?

Thanks. Just to clarify: Filing a bug is not something everybody can do, i.e. one needs special access to be able to do that, am I correct?

Sorry for not noticing your steps. I can reproduce the bug and have filed it.

Unfortunately the bug is still present in 4.1 RC2. IMHO this is a serious bug that needs to be fixed.

Thanks to the analysis of LRuser24 I'm now able to secify the problem, which does not depend on the camera, I think. (I use a Nikon D7000.)

The bug, wery well discribed by LRuser24 above, affects not all images, but at least the following:

1.) photos in portrait aspect or photos that were rotated to portrait aspect - if transformed vertically or horizontally or by distorsion,
2.) photos that were rotated to landscape aspect - if transformed vertically or horizontally
3.) photos in landscape aspect that were flipped vertically - if transformed vertically,
4.) photos in landscape aspect that were flipped horizontally - if transformed horizontally.

The arrow-keys work, but the mouse does not.