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45095072g9u3
Participant
June 29, 2025
Question

Crop Overlay shows previous image

  • June 29, 2025
  • 5 replies
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Bug Description:

When using the Crop Overlay tool in Lightroom Classic, there's a visual glitch: after cropping one image and navigating to the next, activating the crop tool again shows the previous image, not the currently selected one. The bug persists even after reinstalling, resetting preferences, and testing clean catalogs.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Open any image in the Develop module.

  2. Use the Crop Overlay tool and apply a crop.

  3. Move to the next image in the filmstrip.

  4. Click the Crop Overlay tool again.

  5. Lightroom displays the previous image in the crop overlay, not the current one.

Expected Result:

The crop tool should load the currently selected photo so it can be cropped normally.

Actual Result:

The crop overlay still shows the previous image, making cropping impossible on the new one unless you reset the view or restart Lightroom.

💻 System Information:

  • Lightroom Classic Version: Latest (installed via Adobe Creative Cloud)

  • Operating System: Windows 10/11 64-bit

  • GPU: Compatible with Lightroom; tested with GPU both enabled and disabled

  • GPU Acceleration: Disabled during testing

  • Catalog: Issue reproduced with a fresh/clean catalog

  • Cache: Cleared via preferences and manually

  • Preferences: Reset via shortcut and deleted manually (%appdata%)

  • Reinstallation: Clean reinstall performed (including removal of leftover folders under %appdata% and ProgramData)

5 replies

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
July 9, 2025

There have been many past reports about this, with two different sets of symptoms.

 

1. LR 14.0 had a bug, fixed in 14.1, where the Crop tool briefly showed the previous image before showing the current one:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-previous-image-briefly-appears-in-crop-tool/idi-p/14927001

 

2. There have been some reports over the past few years of what you're seeing, where the Crop tool permanently displays the previous image:

 

10/19/2022: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/crop-shows-previous-image/m-p/13278782

 

8/26/2024: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/crop-tool-now-reverts-back-to-previously-cropped-image/m-p/14822533 

 

6/209/2025: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/advancing-to-a-new-photo-in-develop-but-crop-goes-to-previous-image/m-p/15394030 

 

Since this affected relatively few people, and no one provided a reliable way to reproduce the problem, Adobe never acknowledged it.

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FStopFoto
Participant
June 29, 2025

I advance to the next photo and when I click on the crop mask it reverts to the previusly edited image.

HELP!

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
June 29, 2025

1. Restart your computer. If that doesn't help, then:

 

2. Do Help > System Info. If you're not running LR 14.4, then do Help > Updates. A bug in a previous version of LR had these symptoms.

 

3. Others have reported that resetting LR's preferences can fix these symptoms.  To reset preferences:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

LR sometimes soils its preferences file, and resetting it can fix all sorts of wonky behavior. That article explains how to restore the old preferences if resetting doesn't help.

 

4. If none of these help, please do the LR menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the entire contents here so we can see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running and important LR options that are set.

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
July 9, 2025

Please do the LR menu command Help > System Info and copy/paste the entire contents here so we can see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running and important LR options that are set.

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ExUSA
Legend
July 9, 2025

I think this was supposed to be fixed in a previous version of Lightroom but I can confirm that I still see it on an M1 Mac mini, Sequoia 15.5, 16GB of RAM. In fact this behavior has never gone away for me on the past few updates. Presumably there is a cache or buffer that isn't cleared out when loading a new image. I even see it with a large delay between editing- for example, I import a new set of images, build previews, etc. But then when I start editing, the preview from the last image (hours or days earlier) flashes on screen.

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
July 9, 2025

I cannot replicate this on Windows 10. 
Your specs are not specific about which OS you are using. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
nikunj.m
Community Manager
nikunj.mCommunity Manager
Community Manager
July 9, 2025

Hi, thanks for reaching out and sharing such a detailed post. 

I tried recreating the behavior on my Windows 10 laptop, but wasn't able to. Everything is working as expected. Please go to the Help menu in Lightroom Classic, then System Info, and copy the text. You can share the info with us by either pasting it as a reply here or in a text file and sharing the file with us. 


Thanks,
Nikunj

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