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davidfhunt
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July 25, 2020
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If you crop an image, make edits an compare with the original, LR does not show the original image

  • July 25, 2020
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I find it frustrating that if I make a lot of edits, including cropping an image, when I try to compare my final image with the original, the original displayed is not the real original, it is the cropped element of the picture. This is not much use when trying to show someone how much impact has been made by judicious cropping.

How can I simply get LR to show the true original (uncropped) with my final cropped version?

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 3, 2020

You may not like it, but this is as designed. It's not a bug. The reason is simple: Comparing two images makes much more sense if you compare them at the same size, and that means the same crop. I am sure many people would complain if Adobe changed it.

-- Johan W. Elzenga
JP Hess
JP Hess
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July 25, 2020

Make a copy of the image for you crop it.

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davidfhuntAuthor
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July 25, 2020

Many thanks for replying, Jim. Not sure how making a copy before I crop it helps. In some cases I did make a virtual copy. The problem is the same as far as I can see. If I crop a rectangle photo into a square, for example, the befoe and after immages both display as a square. It does not show the full size original.

JP Hess
JP Hess
Inspiring
July 25, 2020

Haven't tried it in Lightroom. But in Lightroom Classic, if I create a virtual copy and crop the virtual copy it has no effect on the original. It should work the same in Lightroom.

 

Added later: just tried what I suggested. Created a copy of an image (in Lightroom), cropped the image to 1:1. The copy retained the 1:1 crop while the original retained the original shape. Works the same in Lightroom as it does in LrC for me.

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