P: Lightroom Classic: synched brush not at the same place on a cropped copy ??

@11115790 - I've been in talks with the team and, at least for the Virtual Copy workflow we are looking at a fix. 

I released the Copy Settings plugin, which correctly copies local adjustments, spot removals, transforms, and crops between photos. It also lets you define presets for which settings should be copied.  I'm hoping that Adobe will fix all the bugs with Copy/Synchronize Settings soon, but meanwhile, this plugin will get the job done.

I've written a memo analyzing the problems with copying crops and local adjustments described in this thread and others and providing a straightforward method for correcting them:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-correct-copying-of-crops-and-local-adjustments/609cafb1577a0e42cab0ae09 

@John_R_Ellis
Thank you so much !

Finally someone with common sense 🙂

As noted previously, the behavior of copying local adjustments to cropped virtual copies changed from 10.1.1 to 10.2. 

Here's an example in LR 9.4, copying a clone brush, adjustment brush, radial filter, and graduated filter. The adjustments appear over the same underlying pixels: 

LR 10.1.1 shows the same behavior:

But LR 10.2 shows different behavior, with the adjustments (except clone) shifting their location:

I agree that the previous behavior makes sense, while I can't think of any use-cases supporting the new behavior.

I believe this change was an unintended side effect of a change made in LR 10.2 to correctly handle copying of local adjustments between photos with different EXIF orientations (e.g. from a portrait raw that had been rotated-in camera to a TIF created by Photoshop editing that raw):

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-local-adjustments-and-crops-dont-copy-or-work-in-presets-applied-to-rotated-photos/5f5f45bb4b561a3d425c83ec

I think both use-cases can be handled correctly, copying local adjustments to crops and copying local adjustments to different orientations.  I'll start a new conversation on that and post back here when I've done so.

@walter_thirion 

This is not the behaviour of all previous versions.

The way of working is personal, often we go back to settings and resynchronizing the modification is something logical and straightfoward.
If you have to erase your crops and redo them from the modified original it becomes laborious!

Especially since this is the initial behavior of lightroom since the first version and on all versions except the latest.

This thread is being merged into an existing authoritative thread for better tracking and response. Please review the official answer (if any) in the second post on the thread for more information. 

I'm not sure I agree with you and the current behavior is what I would expect and prefer. Brush strokes are local adjustments and, in general, are not content aware. So when you sync the brush stroke across photos, all LR can do is use a relative position as it has no idea what the underlying content is. Syncing to a virtual copy you've cropped is not a workflow I'd recommend. A better workflow might be to make all local adjustments that you think will be needed across all virtual copies before you make the virtual copies or at least before you crop. Then after you've made the local adjustments you think will be required across all virtual copies, make the virtual copies, crop each as necessary and continue to make local adjustments specific to that instance of the virtual copy.

Is there anyone with any common sense on this forum?
Here is the answer I received on a bug that I reported as soon as the current version was put into service

"The team has confirmed this is as-designed behavior. Feel free to submit a feature request or change this post to an Idea if you want the behavior changed. "

1. Editing an image

2. Create a virtual copy

3. Crop the copy (uncentered!)

4. Adding a brush stroke to the original

5. Synching only the brush from original to copy

6. Interrogate brush stroke

Expected : brush stroke over the same part of the image, the eyes for instance.

Actual : brush stroke has moved to a different area !!! I will keep the same relative position but if the crop is uncentered it will not be on the same place, the eyes of the subject for instance...

The same for the other tools (graduated, radial filter)

This is a major bug, this completely silly change appeared with the latest version !!!

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-classic/lightroom-classic-win-10-brush-not-at-the-same-place-when-synching-brush-on-a-reframed-virtual-copy/605f8ed3d310b55034d41f13?commentId=609aab39c9914b714831e2f4