LrC: Batch Automatically straighten the photo (Auto button in crop)

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Request for additional feature, or update of current feature, as Auto (Automatically straighten the photo) is not aligning angle for each of selected photos even if Auto sync option is enabled. Auto sync option apply same angle to all photos.
Solutions Within Transformation (like Level) never return as good results.

Alternative - offer a keyboard shortcut for this feature.

This would drastically change work flow for many of action photographers with fast changing scenes.

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František Kollár

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@johnrellis
I completely agree with the original poster — it would be extremely helpful if the Auto button in the Crop & Straighten panel calculated the angle for each photo individually. Right now, when using Auto Sync, it simply copies the exact numerical angle value from the active photo to all selected images.

The Transform -> Level panel is not a valid workaround for this. For tasks like processing hundreds of portraits, Transform often yields poor results by stretching or distorting the image structure. What we actually need is simple image rotation that preserves 100% of the original perspective.

It shouldn't be difficult to make Crop -> Auto Angle run its calculation per-image during batch operations with Auto Sync enabled. Unfortunately, the Transform panel doesn't deliver the same clean results as Crop -> Auto Angle.

#LightroomClassic #Ideas/Feature Request

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@Emma30029293e8qi Transformation - Level, changes the perspective of the photo, whereas the Auto level in Crop only rotates the image.

A few others have stated this before, but no one has yet provided an example where Crop > Auto produces a visually different result from Transform > Level. See this very long thread:

If you have such an example, please attach the original photo here.

Here’s an example: the original photo, with Crop > Auto, and with Transform > Level (look at the door frame and short tree trunks to the right):

And another example:

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johnrellis

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"Solutions Within Transformation (like Level) never return as good results."

That hasn't been my experience. Could you attach a couple unmodified full-resolution JPEG exports showing that Transform > Level does noticeably worse than Crop > Auto?

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Emma30029293e8qi

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Transformation - Level, changes the perspective of the photo, whereas the Auto level in Crop only rotates the image.

A batch auto function would be really helpful 😊

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