P: Ability to name custom crops and have more than 5

The Any Crop plugin lets you create named crops. It also lets you prepare multiple crops for a set of photos all at once, in batch, which you can then individually adjust if needed.  

You can prepare print presets with these formats and print them in .jpg files, why absolutely want to create cropping presets while the printing module can very well do it and at the same time, you will be able to record its "impressions" as collections, it's more practical, it will allow you to find them easily in the catalog LR Classic!


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Vous pouvez préparer des presets d'impression avec ces formats et les imprimer dans des fichiers .jpg, pourquoi vouloir absolument créer des presets de recadrage alors que le module d'impression peut très bien le faire et par la même occasion, vous pourrer enregistrer ses "impressions" comme des collections, c'est plus pratique, ça vous permettra de les retrouver facilement dans le catalogue LR Classic !

I posted in the thread on the official support thread (a seemingly logical course of action to me as a customer) and was advised to come here to vote.  Sending me to a third-party platform to sign up and post just doesn't seem like an adequate response.

In a more constructive tone, my recommendation would be for a simple Folder > Item : Values system that could be easily integrated with a JSON structure.

I've since achieved this with Sketch, though it would have be better to not have to manage my workflow across two programs.

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I think this forum is more of a place for users to bit*h and moan, and less of a place for Adobe to listen.

The original message of this thread was posted 7 years ago. Can you believe this ?

Too many fans of Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder at Adobe. In France, "The seven year itch" picture was titled "7 ans de réflexion" (seven years of reflection). Hey guys ! Still watching ?

Let us NAME the aspect ratios already. "folder", "Name" and aspect ratio; "Description";  eg. 1. "Frames", "13x18 cm"; 2. Frames", "13x18 cm with matte", "matte opening 11x15"; 3. Social Media / Facebook, "828 x 315 px ratio", Facebook cover photo; 4. "Frames", "50x70 cm", IKEA #502.688.74 with matte opening 40x50. Matte is asymmetric. Better for portrait orientation etc.

Thank you so much,
For some reason I had become stuck on achieving  it with a custom preset, probably because I was preoccupied with other preset issues.

"But I didn't find it that comfortable to use and for some unknown reason the ratios wouldn't hold, even with the crop padlock switched on."

If you could email with details about this to the support address on Any Crop's Web page, I would greatly appreciate this, thanks. 

Yes - great idea. This was suggested in the first post in this thread - seven years ago. So don't hold your breath. Adobe obviously don't think it's a good idea 😞

I have now tried Any Crop plugin. It does allow me to add and name crops which is good. But I didn't find it that comfortable to use and for some unknown reason the ratios wouldn't hold, even with the crop padlock switched on. I'll wait (and wait and wait) for LR to add an enhancement to their standard crop function.

Even after cropping to the required ratio one still needs to match this with the export command to create the final JPG. I guess it would be too much to ask Adobe to also add an option to automatically pre-select a specific export preset for an image when one has chosen a named crop.

So I guess what I would like to see is a crop dialogue where one creates a named crop ratio, save this in a named folder structure and optionally both sets the crop padlock on and selects a specific export preset when exporting. I'm not sure how this would work on a batch export of mixed export presets so I'll leave that up to the Adobe experts.