P: Local adjustments and crops don't copy or work in presets applied to rotated photos

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I'm requesting that Adobe add the ability to include crop ratio when creating a custom Develop preset. 

The retained custom crop history isn't big enough. 

If I could make a history item sticky that would satisfy my current need but a preset would be better.

Using Auto Sync or pasting the Local Adjustments afterward pastes the adjustments rotated 90º clockwise.  That sucks.  Is there any workaround?  The photos themselves have not been rotated.

Mac OS 10.14.6

Lightroom Classic 10.0

Camera Raw 13.0

I'm chiming in from another thread that I started recently. John_R_Eliis mentioned this may be a better venue for the issue I am experiencing. 

 

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I found a bug a when pasting Develop Settings >Transform to HDR images. 

 

When I past a guided transform setting from my base exposure onto an HDR image made from the base and two other exposures, the transform guides are loaded incorrectly/ sideways. This issue only seems to affect portrait orientation images that are merged into an HDR file. 

 

I document exhibitions for galleries with florescent lights which need an HDR treatment in the lights/ ceiling. I only composite the HDR section of the overhead lights into my base exposures to ensure accurate color and tone of the artwork and interior space throughout the shoot. Otherwise, I would only work on the HDR image and this would not be a problem. 

 

If I understand correctly and my issue falls under Rikk's explanation of "behavior is as designed", I would argue that this behavior is a critical error and would only benefit Lightroom's users to correct it. 

 

I'm working with a FUJI GFX100, 2019 MacBook Pro 16'' running OS10.15.6 with Lightroom Classic CC 9.4

Please note, this is essentially modified public duplicate of LRD-4204376. We have a lot of users finding this issue so I thought it would be useful to make a version they could comment on and collect more information on cameras affected.

Problem Description:
Applying a preset containing a radial or brush based adjustment will often transform the adjustment and 'squish' it over the image. While in some portrait images the adjustment is rotated 90 degrees, in others it's squished. This all appears to relate to how lightroom considers the image. Some portrait images are considered portrait (eg 4000px x 6000px), other portrait images are considered landscape images (eg 6000x4000) rotated 90 degrees. There doesn't seem to be consistency with how these are treated when applying presets.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a preset with a circular radial filter or use a commercial preset with a brushmask (eg Meridian Presets LLFx Meg Loakes Celestial) 
2. Apply this preset to an affected portrait image
3. The radial or brushmask will appear squished

Actual Result:
A variety of different results. Sometimes the preset will appear squished in the preview, sometimes not. Sometimes it will appear squished when applied, sometimes not.

Expected Result::
Preset applied as per landscape image but rotated 90 degrees

Any Workarounds:
Use a plugin. The photo:applyDevelopPreset(presetToApply, _PLUGIN) method appears to treat all portrait images the same, simply rotating the preset to match the orientation of the image.

This fundamental problem is crippling for portrait shooters. To get an identical crop for portrait orientation between PSD (saved in PS) and RAW (in Lightroom):

1. Create a virtual copy of the RAW, remove the crop
2. Edit in Photoshop, rotate 90 degrees CW (clockwise), save as PSD
3. Back in LR, rotate the PSD CCW (counter-clockwise)
4. Sync the crop with the original RAW to get identical cropping

Having to do this with a series of portrait shots with mixed RAW and PSD is an excessive amount of extra work. And if you were looking at thumbnails for those PSD's outside of LR, they are all rotated 90-degrees CW or CCW.

I changed this topic to "Idea" (feature request).

Please see the official post at the top of the thread. This would fall into the realm of a feature request. I will double check with Smit but I believe his post to this thread may have been in error.  I apologize for any confusion.