Develop settings for crop do not transfer between different formats of same image

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November 26, 2019
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I have a strange situation in Lightroom Classic for Windows where applying Lightroom's saved develop settings from a JPG file to a HEIC of the very same photo (with identical dimensions!) gives an X and Y offset for the crop. Other develop settings are applied correctly. The scenario is that I have a set of JPG images from when the HEIC format was not supported on Windows - I'd like to apply those edits to the original HEIC images now that the format is supported. But the crop comes out wrong when using Lightroom to copy/paste all the develop settings. Any idea why?

Problem or error

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johnrellis

Legend

Was the HEIC in portrait orientation? LR has always had bugs with copying crops and local adjustments from/to photos that have been rotated:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-cc-crop-syncing

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/copied-radial-filter-effects-appears-on-mirrored-position-when-camera-rotation-changed-lr5-7-1

Even though the fix involves a very small number of lines of code, Adobe has never prioritized it. A year ago Adobe even said this behavior was "as designed" (since LR 2): "Copy/pasting local corrections across images with different orientations is not supported".

Please add your constructive opinion to the bug report, and be sure to click Me Too and Follow in the upper-right corner. That will make it a little more likely that Adobe might prioritize a fix, and you'll be notified when the bug's status changes.

Meanwhile, you could use the Any Crop plugin to copy/paste crops correctly.

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JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Apparently the bug has not yet been fixed.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

What version of Lightroom are you using? I believe this is a known bug, but I thought it was corrected already.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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DavidAnsonAuthor

Participant

9.0 Release
Build [201910151439-b660523e]

It should be the latest on Windows; I update when prompted.

Repro (from email to a friend):

Import both files from attached file IMG_3786.zip into Lightroom Classic for Windows
From Library view, right-click to copy ALL develop settings from IMG_3786.HEIC.jpg
In Library view, paste those settings on to IMG_3786.HEIC

Result:

Not even close

Expected:

Identical

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