P: (AI) Use AI to recommend composition and crop images

AI crop would be a game changer. And if you could select an object as a color reference so it adjust settings to always keep that object/subject the same exposure & color... This could save many of us days of editing.

I am surprised that this functionality is still not available in ANY converter out there. There are some plugins available but no editors do this that I am aware of.

So here it goes...it would be a HUGE timesaver for portrait photographers especially on location like business headshots, school photography etc where you want a consistent look when sending proofs. Since ACR can recognize faces and bodies I would like to generate crop presets based on headsize, crop ratio, top margin etc set by the user. After that preset has been set you should be able to batchrun it and ALL your portraits would look identical from a crop perspective even if the original images have different framing due to movements etc.

It could either be preset-based as explained above OR perhaps an easier solution: simply using "sync". Ie set the crop of your choice in the first image and then use "sync" and an option called "AI sync cropping" or something similar. When run the rest of the images will be cropped accordingly based on face position and look exactly the same. As the model and camera haven't moved an inch.

I hope this makes sense. It would be a HUGE deal for high volume portrait photographers.

I love the people view where I can see a wide variety of expressions/sentiments for a given person. This has great potential to provide an automatically-generated single "grid image" ("pele-mele" in french) with the selected faces.

Currently, the only solution I found is to take screenshots of the Lrc people view (repeat for each page after scrolling down), and concat all screenshots into a single image in Ps. This is quite time consumming, and lacking control over the individual faces.

I'd like that the people view to propose to produce a virtual copy for each picture in all selected faces, each cropped to the confirmed face rectangle.

This would then enable to leverage the following lightroom built-in features to produce the grid image:

- develop features on the face virtual copies crops (such as AI noise removal/upscale, especially for low res crops, or black/white develop settings)

- use album feature to produce the grid image: control background color, framing, size, layout

- filtering / organize: compare, select/reject faces, add tag face virtual copies crops, add to dynamic collections

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Since this would be a Photography Products function (CR/LrC/LrE) we place it in the Lightroom Classic Forum because it has 3x the traffic of LrE and 10x the traffic of CR. Technically, the Camera Raw forum is the correct forum for this type of Cross-product feature. We track things like this in Lightroom Classic to improve visibility. 

The team has asked that AI Cropping features, regardless of nuance, be combined into a single thread for holistic evaluation of a future AI cropping feature. As we contemplate new features, the breadth of the requested scope gets lost when posted across many forums and slightly different requests. 

I have 45+ portraits that i took handheld. Wouldn't it be nice to have a feature that selecting all of them centers each one automatically to something like eye level? 

I try to have the topmost crosslines on their chin, but some pleople are more to the right, others to the left, etc. This feature would be a total time saver.

Thanks for reading!

since we have many inclusions of AI-based processes in the updates, it would be perfect if the crop tool could use this processing to have the same crop in photos that are similar and that have the possibility of detecting the body, face or even eyes, using what already exists in mask detections. This would greatly reduce crop time in a studio shoot or even outdoor shots that have people, animals or things detectable by the AI.

Why we don't have a crop based on facial recognition included? As lightroom have today many mask features featuring objects recognition , will be great to have that on other tools , like Crop.

I work with students pictures. Will be great to have a tool to auto Crop included on the Lightroom.

I am a portrait photographer and I often give my clients lots of pictures that need to have a uniform visual (headshots), it would be nice to have an intelligent croping tool (based on IA), for example: you set the location of the eyes and mouth, and the tool would crop the portraits with the same visual, or the capability to  use my own grid for the croping tool