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

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.

Thanks John, worth checking this out to see if it will help

Another option is my Any Crop plugin, which lets you create named crop presets.  Not as convenient as having it built-in to LR, though.

Many thanks Patrick, very clear instructions. I can see when it would be useful to do this and I'll retain these instructions should I need them.

But I have a large number of crop sizes to keep track of. I need to label each pair and hopefully group them in a folder type structure by company name like the Export module. Without a text label I would not remember which application each dimension belongs to and still need to keep a written list.