P: Allow Crop Settings in Presets

You'd think, with the amount of money Creative Cloud generates for Adobe, it would be within their scope to have someone on staff who could be addressing professional bug fixes and features. Apparently Adobe disagrees.

Like others I'm also desperately waiting for this basic functionality to be added.

I bought Lightroom when it was aimed at professional photographers with features to suit. These days the direction seems to be towards useless gimmicks for smart phones etc at the expense of more useful tweaks to suit those that use Lightroom to earn a living.

Thanks for your "help" Rikk.

 I note this thread is six years old now with no progress whatsoever on what should be a very simple bit of coding for Adobe. 

Please enlighten me on how detrimental things could be when compared to six years of inaction.

While I understand your request not to combine thread, this would be detrimental to your request. Additional, multiple and recent posting does not aid the cause of a feature nor make it more visible.

Your feature request will carry more weight when added to the aggregate thread. By itself, it runs the risk of being buried. 

Mods, please don't roll this into another thread. I know it's been posted before - by me and others - but it needs to be read and understood by Adobe. 

Adobe, could we please have a Crop Ratio checkbox when saving Develop/Import presets - soon.

Crop Ratio can be applied across a selection in the Library module so I don't understand why we are forbidden from saving that one step and applying it during import. It makes no sense!

My camera shoots 5:4 but my market demands 4:3. Please save me time and allow me to make that little bit more money from my struggling business by allowing me to automate this step.

we need a "Pro" app and an "Enthusiast" app.

Well said. I agree fully. Let's hope your needs are met with future versions.
Sorry Shane- disrespect never intended.

"I am not a professional"

You're entitled to your opinion Robert but, for those of us trying to feed our families, it's kind of pointless and disrespectful.

This is why we need a "Pro" app and an "Enthusiast" app.

You obviously do not run a busy photography business, but is fine. You are entitled to your view.

Others will differ. Can't understand why it bothers some people so much if we get a functionality we desperately need, simply because they think they don't have any need for it.

Those are 5 extra steps that I can live without.

I can crop every photo in my library (thousands) in under 5 seconds using the steps in my post above. ('Hours"...never!!)
Hard to believe that many people are so time poor that 5 seconds is critical. Granted I am not a professional so 'time' is my own for which I am not paid.

The bulk of my work is real estate. Deliverables, by default, are 4:3 not 3:2 that my camera shoots. I shoot hundreds of shots per day and having a 4:3 crop in my develop preset upon import would save me hours.

I've seen a bunch of "But what if the preset cropped your picture wrong?" nonsense. Puleeze! They're my shots. How about I get to make the decision how I want the treat them?  It's not like the crop is baked in. When it's wrong, I'll fix it but, I'm a professional, 90% are framed in camera for the delivery.

These kinds of unaddressed bugs are costing us and our businesses money. Can we just sort it already?!