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Paste of Crop results in an uncropped destination image

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April 16, 2026
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After updating Lightroom to the latest version (with the improved crop tool), an issue appered:

When I copy settings from another photo, including the crop, and paste them onto my photo, and then open the Crop tool, the photo crop disappears. Pressing CTRL+Z returns back the crop I had.

Steven Whitea

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When you paste the settings, the crop coordinates are clearly applied, but opening the tool seems to trigger a "reset" or "auto-recalculate" event that overrides the pasted data. It’s likely a conflict in the latest Lightroom version's non-destructive editing pipeline, where the UI doesn't correctly lock the pasted crop parameters. Until a hotfix is released, using a custom "Crop Preset" instead of the standard Copy/Paste might bypass this specific coordinate reset.

macro.viewpointAuthor

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Apologies for the unclear description! I’ve attached a video showing this issue, including both copying the settings via CTRL+C, as well as pasting them, and then opening the crop tool (during which step the crop disappears).

Steps to reproduce:

CTRL+C to copy the settings, including Masking and Crop
CTRL+V on another photo
Open the Crop tool
The previously pasted crop disappears
CTRL+Z recovers the crop

Here’s additional information:

Lightroom v9.3

Windows 11

Camera: Sony a7 IV

Please let me know if more information is needed.

Recording 2026-04-16 224303.mp4

Rikk Flohr_Photography

I have tested Mac 26.4 and Win 11 and followed your instructions but I get the correct crop every time I paste.

In your Step 1, you [Ctrl]+[C] - What happens if you [Shift]+[Ctrl]+[C] instead to make sure the crop is selected.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

macro.viewpointAuthor

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I can reproduce the issue also when using the Shift+Ctrl+C. Both commands function the same for me.

Pasting actually pastes the crop. But the issue appears when I open the “Crop” tool after pasting the settings - that’s when the crop disappears.

What’s interesting is that this issue doesn’t repeat every time. I managed to copy the settings and paste them without the crop disappearing upon opening the crop a few times.

I attached another video:

CTRL+C command to copy the settings
Opening a couple of photos and pasting the settings. As I open the crop tool, the pasted crop disappears
I then reset the edits for the photos, exited the single-photo mode through a double-click and opened one of the photos again
using the same copied settings, now the pasted crop is kept when opening the crop tool (the issue is not reproduced this time).

I haven’t quite pick out what is causing this, but it doesn’t seem to be the copying action rather than the pasting action combined with how the photo was navigated onto (from the bottom photo strip or the grid), although I cannot always repeat it identically.

Recording 2026-04-16 231921.mp4

Rikk Flohr_Photography

I am unable to reproduce this behavior using the provided instructions. Either there is more information that has not been provided, or you have a system-specific issue.

Please read the above and provide complete information for us to use in attempting to verify your bug report.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

macro.viewpointAuthor

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After updating Lightroom to the latest version (9.3, with the improved crop tool), an issue appered:

When I copy settings from another photo, including the crop, and paste them onto my photo, and then open the Crop tool, the photo crop disappears. Pressing CTRL+Z returns back the crop I had.

I added a video recording showing this issue

Recording 2026-04-16 223725.mp4

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