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P: Unable to move crop to image edges after negative (CCW) rotation

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April 24, 2025
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Hi,
I’m experiencing a recent issue with the Crop tool in Lightroom Classic.

When I try to crop an image after applying a rotation correction (either automatic or manual), the crop frame won’t let me move it fully to the edges of the image. It’s as if there’s an invisible boundary about one centimeter from the top or side edges, preventing me from placing the crop where I want.

This didn’t happen earlier today and started occurring with the last two photos I’ve edited. I’ve tried:

Toggling “Constrain to Image” on and off
Using different aspect ratios (including “Original” and “Custom”)
Removing the rotation, cropping first, and then reapplying the rotation
Restarting Lightroom

In all cases, the issue returns as soon as I apply any rotation, even a minor one. I’m attaching a screenshot that clearly shows how the crop frame cannot be moved freely even though the image has visible content.

Is there a setting or recent behavior that could be causing this?
I’d appreciate any guidance.

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Anshul_Saini

Community Manager

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for flagging this issue. This unexpected behavior after applying rotation is clearly a real hindrance.

We appreciate all the detailed info you’ve shared, especially noting that the issue arises with portrait-oriented images and when a non-zero rotation angle is involved. That level of detail really helps us get to the root of the problem faster.

We’ve passed your report along to our product team for further investigation. In the meantime, as others have suggested, rolling back to LrC version 14.2 might be a helpful temporary workaround until we resolve this.

Thanks again for your patience and for helping make Lightroom better.

Best,

Anshul Saini

johnrellis

Legend

@Rikk Flohr: Photography, please move this to Bugs and link it to the existing internal bug report that I understand already exists. There are likely to be more reports about this soon.

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drtonyb

Legend

@bel�n_3475

It is a bug in LrC 14.3 which needs urgent fixing. It only affects portrait orientation images that have a non-zero Angle.

If you Rotate your portrait image CCW or CW, then the crop can be moved to any edge, but that's not a workable solution.

Any portrait photo that has been previously cropped and has a non-zero Angle will suffer from this bug. This results in a crop done in LrC 14.2, or an earlier version, being shifted if it previously touches or is too near the top or bottom edge.

This is not a good situation at all and I hope it gets fixed very soon. An immediate update would be best.

If this is going to be a serioius problem, I suggest rolling back to version 14.2 until it is fixed.

KR Seals

Community Expert

What version of LrC? There is a new version out today, 14.3. Are you using that?

Mac or PC? OS version?

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.

kglad

Community Expert

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.

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