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Inspiring
Nov 2, 2025 7:06 PM UTC
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P: Crop orientation is reversed when drawing a new crop on portrait images

Hi,

after the latest update to v15 of LR for Windows, the behaviour of the cropping tool changed. It's really annoying:

 

It is very difficult to create a selection in portrait format with the mouse in this case. Simply dragging diagonally downwards is no longer sufficient – see my screen video here:

https://youtu.be/NYfgYOV3IXE

 

Any idea to get back the old behaviour – not by using the previous version of LR 😉

 

Thanks!

mycc

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Dolliteon
Participating Frequently
May 26, 2026 10:51 AM UTC

Hi!

This problem drives me crazy! Is there a solution for it?

 

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nik.m
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 26, 2026 12:09 PM UTC

Hi ​@Dolliteon, thanks for reaching out, and we’re sorry about the trouble. 

Please go to the Help menu in Lightroom Classic, then System Info, and copy the text. You can share the info with us by either pasting it as a reply here or in a text file and sharing the file with us. 

It would also be helpful if you could share a video of the issue. 

 

Thanks, 

Nikunj 

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Bob Somrak
Legend
Nov 3, 2025 6:31 AM UTC

@my cc 

 

I agree that using the Aspect tool when croppin a vertical image is messed up.  I works on on a horizontal image if you hit "X" before using the tool.

 

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my ccAuthor
Inspiring
Nov 3, 2025 11:19 AM UTC

Tipp from Copilot:

Wenn du präzise arbeiten möchtest, kann es helfen, das Seitenverhältnis explizit zu setzen (z. B. 2:3 oder 4:5) und dann mit der „X“-Taste zwischen Hoch- und Querformat zu wechseln.

 

→ if I explicitly set up the proportion from "Original" (2:3!)  to 2:3, the cropping tools works as before and as in all other programs. But what is the idea behind it? I can't find any... 😞

 

 

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dj_paige
Legend
Nov 3, 2025 11:56 AM UTC

But what is the idea behind it? I can't find any... 

 

It's a bug. There is no "idea" here. Perhaps you should report it as a bug, following these instructions: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-how-do-i-write-a-bug-report/idi-p/12386373

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dj_paige
Legend
Nov 2, 2025 8:28 PM UTC

The first thing I would check is the mouse driver, try replacing it with a new copy of the most current version of the driver.

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my ccAuthor
Inspiring
Nov 3, 2025 12:34 AM UTC

No, it's not a driver problem! I use a mouse AND a graphic tablet – with no differences when drawing the crop rectangle.

As you can see in the screen video: Within a portrait-format photo, I cannot simply draw/create the cropping rectangle by dragging it diagonally to the bottom right — as I am used to doing in Lightroom and other programs in general.

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