P: Crop is being performed when the Transform Tool is Synced between images

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​@GregR_24 Thank you, Adobe Team, for fixing!

Note that the behavior you observed originally hasn’t changed in LR 15.3. Rather, the team said that behavior is “as designed” (intentional).  See here for workarounds.

​@Rikk Flohr_Photography, to avoid confusion, perhaps this thread should be moved into Discussions. It’s currently still in Bugs and marked Released.

Thank you, Adobe Team, for fixing!

Mine just started doing this 2 days ago, the same you posted this post.  So they must have introduced a bug in their latest update.

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This was an undocumented design change in LR 15.0. When Upright Transforms is checked, then Crop is automatically checked and greyed out:

I have no idea what motivated this change.

So if you don’t want Crop copied, then uncheck Upright Transforms also.

If want to copy Upright Transforms but not Crop, see here for several workarounds.

When attempting to sync settings in the develop module, the crop, straighten and aspect ratio selections are grayed out. When I click on synchronize, the crop is applied but. If you don't want to synch the crop, there doesn't appear to be anyway to deselect that option.

​@Rikk Flohr_Photography “To avoid the crop from getting copied, the user will have to disable the upright transform.”

That’s not helpful if the user wants to copy Upright Transforms. Workarounds for copying Upright Transforms but not changing the Crop in the target photos:

- In the source photo, create a temporary preset with just Upright Transforms selected. Apply that preset to all the target photos.

- In the target photo, do Copy Settings, selecting just Crop. Sync Upright Transforms from the source to the target photo. In the target photo, do Paste Settings. (This only works one photo at a time if the target photos have different crops.)

- Use the Copy Settings plugin, which preserves the pre-LR 15.0 behavior.

​@Rikk Flohr_Photography The team responded with this: 
“This is expected behavior (consistent with ACR and LrD) that when the upright settings are checked, the crop should automatically get selected. To avoid any confusion, we have checked and disabled crop whenever the upright transform is checked. To avoid the crop from getting copied, the user will have to disable the upright transform. “

This undocumented change was introduced in LR 15.0 -- I tested LR 6.14, 11.0 through 14.0, and 14.5.1, and they all behaved the same, not copying Crop when copying Upright Transforms.

Perhaps the team could elaborate on the use cases that motivated this change? I have no idea...

To avoid any confusion, we have checked and disabled crop whenever the upright transform is checked.

This doesn’t always occur. I will file a new bug report.

​@johnrellis 

The team responded with this: 

“This is expected behavior (consistent with ACR and LrD) that when the upright settings are checked, the crop should automatically get selected. To avoid any confusion, we have checked and disabled crop whenever the upright transform is checked. To avoid the crop from getting copied, the user will have to disable the upright transform. “

​@johnrellis  I will reopen this.