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

Yes, please, I need this. Already started another topic before I noticed this.

Deleting custom presets might not be possible, because even if only one or two images use it, they probably reference it on database and removing a custom crop ratio would require checking the database and rules to deal with any occurence of that specific crop. Of course it could automatically revert back to original crop, but everyone would want to know, how many images in database are affected before doing it...

Very much needed here. For my purposes the current defaults are useless and just get in the way. Except 1x1.

Named presets, and more than five, soon please.

BTW - thanks for a great product!

This would be a very nice improvement.

Have you considered saving snapshot with these relative names?

Consider XmpCrop - it's a bit klunky, but gets the job done.

Let's get this small but much needed feature into LR 4.4!

Or in LR5 early next year 🙂

we are still waiting for good custom crop settings in Lightroom, I know use Photo Mechanic to select my photo's en to crop them with pre -defined ( and saved!) aspect ratio's , after that I import them into Lightroom and th e crops are there as well ...

The workaround for the time being, since croppage is not savable in presets either, is to maintain a set of images whose sole purpose in life is to house crop settings. Then when you want to apply a custom crop, just select the corresponding image, and copy it's settings to the clipboard, then paste on desired image(s). Klunky * kludgy, but in case it's better than nothing...

Bonus Idea:
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Somebody could write a plugin to assign crop "presets", e.g.:
1. save metadata
2. modify crop setting in xmp (exiftool can do this)
3. read metadata

Note: 1 & 3 are not supported by the current SDK (3.0) but can be done with a trick. And anyway this too is a kindy iffy way of doing it...

PS - I doubt I'll be writing such a plugin in the near future, unless Adobe adds better support to SDK(4).

Rob

i have been using Lightroom since it was first released. to be able to set as many custom crop presets as i want and name them on my terms (just like any other preset) has been my number one request for Lightroom. i have so many different outputs that it's more work to keep re-entering a specific crop ratio when i need it. especially since it's usually pixel-based, so i have to work out what the crop would be in inches. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make crop ratios an option for future releases!

It has always struck me as being odd that in all other dropdown menu's in LR you have the option to save it as a named preset. The Crop dropdown is the one strangely missing out on this functionality.

Please!