P: Copy/Sync Crop and Spot Removal wrong results at portrait photos

I just did more tests and found a new problem.

Steps to reproduce:

- reimport the same image (without metadata)

- rotated the image and added crop & spot removal

- now right click on the image -> Edit in -> Photoshop 2021 -> Edit a Copy

- In Photoshop 2021: File -> Save -> close Photoshop

Result: the copy (right) by Photoshop is completely different to the source (left) and also significantly distorted.

@Rikk 

I updated to Lightroom Classic 10.2 on Windows 10 and unfortunately the bug still occurs and is not solved.

Even if I check the option in Catalog Settings > Metadata > Automatically Write Changes Into XMP (John_R_Ellis has previously written it should works with it).

Steps to reproduce:

- Download my sample image from post1

- Removing all metadata from the image (because Lightroom has unfortunately added the rotation directly to the image).

- Import the image into Lightroom Classic 10.2

- rotate the image by: Photo -> Rotate Right (CW)

- right click on the image -> Edit in -> Photoshop 2021 -> Edit a Copy

- In Photoshop 2021: File -> Save -> close Photoshop

- Now, 2 times the same image is existing (imported and a copy from Photoshop). 

- goto develop tab
- crop the left image
- add spot removal to the left image (removes the boat on the left side)

- now we have:

- copy develop settings from from left image (spot removal + crop)
- paste develop settings to to the right image

- Now both images should have the same crop and spot settings, but the result is (grid view):

- Result in Develop Tab and show the crop:

Now you can see 3 bugs:

- crop is wrong

- spot removal is wrong (instead of removing the boat on the left, the plants in the water ( bottom) are changed

- lock for crop is wrong

Either I am misunderstanding you or unable to reproduce what you are seeing. Can you post a screenshot of LrWeb and LrClassic showing the issue?

Used a portrait photo as reference for sync, it messed up all 3 other photos.

Samples in JohnWacher.com LR Problem labeled Synced2_from_Portrait.

This has never been a problem in the past.

Further checking this morning seems to show the problem happens when you crop a landscape picture to portrait and later sync to a different aspect ratio. The sync seems to go back to landscape and uses the center section.

The sync was referenced to a landscape photo, have not checked for using a portrait photo as the starting point.

Basic editing routine

1 import photos to Lightroom

2 preliminary edits 

3 export as uncropped

4 crop  and export as full

5 Select all photos then convert 1st photo in group to 16x9 aspect.

6 Sync all the photos to 1st photo checking only Process Version and Aspect ratio.

 Samples are in JohnWacher.com LR Problem. 

Get 4 4x6 photos crop 2 as landscape and 2 as portrait.  Select all 4,  then using one of the landscape shots change it in develop to a 16x9 then sync with just process and aspect ratio.  At least the 2 portrait should be obviously wrong.  

I can give a step by step with more detail after the college double header I am shooting. 

Can you give me step by step instructions for reproducing?

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Yes, was fine yesterday, automatic update this morning.  Also happens when going from 4x6 to 8x10.  Ran the windows 10 update, no change.

Thanks, Is this issue new/unique to this update of Lr?

Lightroom Classic 10.2 release Build 202103041821-226a1211

Windows 10 Home 20H2 OS build 19042.867

There is a Cumulative update KB5001567 that is available