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

Hi,

Here is how you can edit the custom crop ratio drop down list in Windows in order to modify or remove ratios or get more than 5 custom ratios. Make a backup of your catalog first.

1. You need an SQLite management tool. I suggest SQLite Expert Personal 5. It's free and very good. You can find it here : http://www.sqliteexpert.com/download.html .

2. After installation, make sure that LR is not running, go to the File menu of SQLite Expert and Open Database...

3. In the Open dialog, select All files in the drop down list at the bottom right of the window. Now navigate to the folder where your catalog is stored and select the corresponding .lrcat file. Click Open.

4. Your catalog will open as an SQLite database, showing tables, columns and values. In the left panel, select the table named Adobe_variablesTable.

5. In the right panel select the Data tab.

6. In the name column, select the Adobe_customCropAspects entry (line 254).

7. In the value column, right-click on the text beginning with "customCropAspects =" and chose Text Editor.

8. The contents looks like this (this is an example with 5 custom ratios) :

customCropAspects = {
    {
        h = 1,
        w = 2,
    },
    {
        h = 7,
        w = 9,
    },
    {
        h = 8,
        w = 11,
    },
    {
        h = 9,
        w = 13,
    },
    {
        h = 11,
        w = 19,
    },
}

Each block like this
    {
        h = 11,
        w = 19,
    },

corresponds to one custom ratio (don't forget the comma).

Let's assume that you want to replace the 9x13 ratio with 13x21. Easy :

customCropAspects = {
    {
        h = 1,
        w = 2,
    },
    {
        h = 7,
        w = 9,
    },
    {
        h = 8,
        w = 11,
    },
    {
        h = 13,
        w = 21,
    },
    {
        h = 11,
        w = 19,
    },
}

Click on OK after you are done with your changes.

9. Exit SQLite Expert and click on Apply pending changes.

10. Launch LR and check the new ratio value.

11. Note that you can have more than 5 custom ratios with this procedure. You just have to add a new block. For example :

customCropAspects = {
    {
        h = 1,
        w = 2,
    },
    {
        h = 7,
        w = 9,
    },
    {
        h = 8,
        w = 11,
    },
    {
        h = 9,
        w = 13,
    },
    {
        h = 11,
        w = 19,
    },
    {
        h = 13,
        w = 21,
    },
}

defines 6 custom ratios. That works perfectly : this generates 6 custom ratios in the drop down list. Which is another evidence that this feature has not been written very seriously.

Hope this helps.