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

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November 14, 2025
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Lr Classic 15.0.1

macOS 26.1

Steps:

1: Enter Develop mode for Photo A

2: Click Copy... to copy settings

3: Select all settings.... but uncheck Crop

4: Go to Photo B and paste settings (if prompted select either Merge or Replace... it doesn't affect reproducibility)

Results: I see the crop was applied to Photo B even though crop was not selected when pasting. I didn't test this for other combinations of settings but perhaps others here might have other occurences of their own.

johnrellis

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@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.

johnrellis

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@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.

Rikk Flohr_Photography

@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. “

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

Rikk Flohr_Photography

@johnrellis I will reopen this.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

johnrellis

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@Rikk Flohr_Photography, the bug recipe still works incorrectly in LR 15.3. See the attached screen recording.

Should I open a new bug report or will you reopen this one?

Screen Recording 2026-04-16 at 11.19.40 AM.mp4

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Re-opening Issue

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Thank you for the report. I've opened a ticket with the LrC team to review.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

Ian Lyons

Community Expert

Using the macOS 26.1 and LrC 15.0.1, I am unable to reproduce this issue when using either Copy Settings or Syncronise Settings. As suggested by @AxelMatt , check whether resetting the LrC preferences resolves the issue.

Srishti_Bali

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Hi @GregR_24 & @ClintGibbs

Thank you for bringing this to our attention! Apologies for this experience. To get a better understanding of the situation, could you please share a few more details:

What version of Lightroom Classic are you using?
Does this happen every time you sync settings, or is it just with certain images?
Did this start after you updated to 15.0.1?
Have you had a chance to reset your preferences as Alex suggested? If you haven't tried that yet, it might help. You can find the steps here: https://adobe.ly/4nTfT9m (Please remember to back up your folders before removing them)

This information will really help us figure out what's going on.

Regards,

Srishti

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GregR_24Author

Known Participant

Lr Classic 15.0.1

macOS 26.1

Believe this started happening with 15.0. I've reset my preferences and relaunched and can still reproduce the issue following the steps above.

New Discovery: This is happening when certain criteria is met. If I copy develop settings (minus crop) from a photo that has minimal develop edits, then paste to another photo, the crop is *not* applied as expected.

But if I go back to photo A from my original post above, (which has a reproducible case) copy those settings (minus crop selected), go to any photo and paste those settings, crop is (incorrectly) applied. Perhaps the bug appears based on the edits a photo has before the user copies those settings. Please advise on where I can send you a reproducible case as a small Lightroom catalog.

johnrellis

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@GregR_24: "Please advise on where I can send you a reproducible case as a small Lightroom catalog."

Zip up the catalog folder and the problem photo and upload it to Wetransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive or similar free service and post the sharing link here. Assuming that others observe the same symptoms with that catalog and photo, that will form the basis of a formal bug report to get injected into Adobe's tracking.