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October 13, 2026
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Why is Lightroom (cloud based) slightly cropping my RAW images on import? I can see I lose about 1% of image compared to when opened in windows file explorer

When I view the RAW image in file explorer through the open with ‘photos’ option, and I compare the same image to what has been imported into Lightroom, I can see I have lost a very small amount of the image (perhaps 1% of each side of the image). I have searched the web for about 3 hours now and found no reason why this might be, or any solution. Just to clarify- I don’t have any ‘Optics’ settings on, like Lens Correction that changes the image on import. The image is also in full and no crop has been applied.

The only have two camera and this issue is there for both- Panasonic GX80, and an older Nikon D200- The Nikon D200 is the camera I noticed this issue with, and the issue is worse on this camera than the Panasonic (it’s so so slight on the Panasonic and really takes some zooming in to see that’s it happening- but it’s still there!. The cameras are set to their full aspect ratio.

 

I don’t understand why this is happening, and it’s obviously quite upsetting that Lightroom is removing a part of my image, and has been for a while without me knowing.

Any help would be very much appreciated

Tom

 

 

 

    4 replies

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 13, 2026

    Do you apply lens corrections? If so, then that’s the reason. The slight distortion of the edges is cropped out.

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    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    Participant
    October 15, 2026

    No lens corrections have been applied

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    Participant
    October 13, 2026

    Additional thought- strangely when I open an image in ‘photos’ from windows file, the image initially appears like it is in Lightroom (the cropped version), and then a second later loads the uncropped full version with additional information on all sides. I don’t know what relevance this has, but it’s an additional piece of information I can give.  

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    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 15, 2026

    Could it be that the camera applies lens corrections? Lightroom would apply the same crop as the camera did, a simple photo viewer would ignore all of it.

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    -- Johan W. Elzenga