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P: (AI) Use AI to recommend composition and crop images

Explorer ,
Sep 23, 2021 Sep 23, 2021

OK, I have 1000 headshots, shot al all different focal lengths. I edit it down to 100.

 

I crop one to the client's standards and would love to be able to auto-crop the others to a similar crop. Yes, this will require VERY SIMPLE AI. 

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022

I am a portrait photographer and I often give my clients lots of pictures that need to have a uniform visual (headshots), it would be nice to have an intelligent croping tool (based on IA), for example: you set the location of the eyes and mouth, and the tool would crop the portraits with the same visual, or the capability to  use my own grid for the croping tool

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LEGEND ,
Dec 14, 2022 Dec 14, 2022
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Explorer ,
Feb 23, 2023 Feb 23, 2023

Why we don't have a crop based on facial recognition included? As lightroom have today many mask features featuring objects recognition , will be great to have that on other tools , like Crop.

I work with students pictures. Will be great to have a tool to auto Crop included on the Lightroom.

 

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LEGEND ,
Feb 23, 2023 Feb 23, 2023
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Community Expert ,
Jun 04, 2023 Jun 04, 2023

since we have many inclusions of AI-based processes in the updates, it would be perfect if the crop tool could use this processing to have the same crop in photos that are similar and that have the possibility of detecting the body, face or even eyes, using what already exists in mask detections. This would greatly reduce crop time in a studio shoot or even outdoor shots that have people, animals or things detectable by the AI.

 

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Explorer ,
Aug 08, 2023 Aug 08, 2023

 

When a burst of shots is taken, a little bit of camera move results in the subject being positioned in a different place across multiple frames.  This happens a LOT in sports when the subject is moving and you're panning to follow...

 

WISH:  When processing these bursts and cropping-in .. it would be SUPER USEFUL to (a) crop the first image in a series to the framing you like, and then (b) go back to Grid view, select multiple photos and choose "Crop Series"... which would use AI to position the crop rectangle so that each image in the series would keep the subject in the same spot in the frame.

Today you have to do this manually .. and it takes forever to position, resize the crop rectangle so each frame "matches".  It's particularly hard because LR doesn't keep the frame size/position constant when you're flipping from one image to another and engaging the crop function.  (eg. you can't "point to a spot on the screen" where you want the head to be.. the UX jumps it around.) 

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New Here ,
Aug 31, 2023 Aug 31, 2023

I have 45+ portraits that i took handheld. Wouldn't it be nice to have a feature that selecting all of them centers each one automatically to something like eye level? 

 

I try to have the topmost crosslines on their chin, but some pleople are more to the right, others to the left, etc. This feature would be a total time saver.

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Thanks for reading!

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LEGEND ,
Aug 31, 2023 Aug 31, 2023
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Enthusiast ,
Dec 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023

How about an Ai based crop tool, that finds the main subject and crops in on it aesthetically pleasing. Of course this should work as "batch processing".

 

If it does a good job: Time saved.
If not: It hast to be done manually anyway.

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Enthusiast ,
Dec 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023

@Rikk Flohr: Photography Not really what I am proposing, I'm thinking about "full auto" not manually and adjust to simliar images.

 

Also not a Classic Proposal but for Mobile (ideally both).

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023

@Wurstkrapfen 

Since this would be a Photography Products function (CR/LrC/LrE) we place it in the Lightroom Classic Forum because it has 3x the traffic of LrE and 10x the traffic of CR. Technically, the Camera Raw forum is the correct forum for this type of Cross-product feature. We track things like this in Lightroom Classic to improve visibility. 

The team has asked that AI Cropping features, regardless of nuance, be combined into a single thread for holistic evaluation of a future AI cropping feature. As we contemplate new features, the breadth of the requested scope gets lost when posted across many forums and slightly different requests. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
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New Here ,
Jan 30, 2024 Jan 30, 2024

I love the people view where I can see a wide variety of expressions/sentiments for a given person. This has great potential to provide an automatically-generated single "grid image" ("pele-mele" in french) with the selected faces.

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Currently, the only solution I found is to take screenshots of the Lrc people view (repeat for each page after scrolling down), and concat all screenshots into a single image in Ps. This is quite time consumming, and lacking control over the individual faces.

 

I'd like that the people view to propose to produce a virtual copy for each picture in all selected faces, each cropped to the confirmed face rectangle.

 

This would then enable to leverage the following lightroom built-in features to produce the grid image:

- develop features on the face virtual copies crops (such as AI noise removal/upscale, especially for low res crops, or black/white develop settings)

- use album feature to produce the grid image: control background color, framing, size, layout

- filtering / organize: compare, select/reject faces, add tag face virtual copies crops, add to dynamic collections

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Explorer ,
Feb 28, 2024 Feb 28, 2024

I am surprised that this functionality is still not available in ANY converter out there. There are some plugins available but no editors do this that I am aware of.

 

So here it goes...it would be a HUGE timesaver for portrait photographers especially on location like business headshots, school photography etc where you want a consistent look when sending proofs. Since ACR can recognize faces and bodies I would like to generate crop presets based on headsize, crop ratio, top margin etc set by the user. After that preset has been set you should be able to batchrun it and ALL your portraits would look identical from a crop perspective even if the original images have different framing due to movements etc.

 

It could either be preset-based as explained above OR perhaps an easier solution: simply using "sync". Ie set the crop of your choice in the first image and then use "sync" and an option called "AI sync cropping" or something similar. When run the rest of the images will be cropped accordingly based on face position and look exactly the same. As the model and camera haven't moved an inch.

 

I hope this makes sense. It would be a HUGE deal for high volume portrait photographers.

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Community Expert ,
Feb 28, 2024 Feb 28, 2024

Interesting idea and a very good usage for AI. I imagine directly syncing crop would greatly simplify how the user was to instruct what particular framing was wanted. Certainly simpler to implement an interface for, than would be a crop layout template designer of some sort.

 

Are you aware of "loupe overlay"? It's not a perfect (manual) answer so far as usability, but AFAIK is the only assistance available for now, in getting consistent framing across a set of images.

 

Another idea already exists here, with consistent (manual) cropping in mind -  custom-crop-overlay 

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New Here ,
Jun 02, 2024 Jun 02, 2024

AI crop would be a game changer. And if you could select an object as a color reference so it adjust settings to always keep that object/subject the same exposure & color... This could save many of us days of editing.

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Explorer ,
Jun 19, 2024 Jun 19, 2024

For what it is worth, this functionality has now been implemented in C1 and it has been welcomed with open arms so I hope it is on the priolist. Thanks

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New Here ,
Oct 10, 2024 Oct 10, 2024

I am curious if smart cropping of images with AI in bulk will be integrated into Lightroom in the near future. This would save me so much time. Or does it exist already exist? 

 

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Community Expert ,
Oct 10, 2024 Oct 10, 2024

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.



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Explorer ,
Sep 03, 2025 Sep 03, 2025

A few years ago, I posted about a feature that I believe would have a huge impact for school photographers like myself — and I’d love to bring it up again with a fresh perspective.

Lightroom Classic already has face recognition for organizing photos, which is great. But what would truly revolutionize our workflow is a Face-Based Auto Crop feature. There are some third-party apps that offer this, but they’re extremely expensive — and paying per image just isn’t feasible, especially when many of the photos haven’t even been sold yet.

In my case, I photograph students from multiple schools and need to crop thousands of images into various formats:

  • Standard ID format (3cm x 4cm)

  • Product formats like 2:3, 4:5, etc.

Doing this manually is incredibly time-consuming. If Lightroom could automatically detect faces and crop images based on predefined aspect ratios (centered on the face), it would save hours of work and eliminate the need for costly external tools like Evoto.

This feature would be a game-changer for portrait workflows, especially in educational and event photography. I hope you’ll consider it!

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New Here ,
Sep 03, 2025 Sep 03, 2025

Preciso fazer alterações de pele facial e corporal na formanda em todas as fotos posadas com os convidados. Mas o Lightrrom Classic não está reconhecendo a formanda nas outras fotos. Ele sincroniza as máscaras em outra pessoa, inclusive em homens, aleatoriamente. Como faço pra ele reconhecer a mesma pessoa em outras fotos? Não queria ter que repetir as configurações em cada fotos.

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Community Expert ,
Sep 03, 2025 Sep 03, 2025

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.



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LEGEND ,
Sep 03, 2025 Sep 03, 2025

Masking does not have a feature to recognize the same person in another photo, and then apply the mask to that person in another photo.

 

You can select just the photos with this person, mask the person in the first photo and then copy the mask to the next photo with the same person, or even copy it to ALL photos with that person. I have never tried this, and I don't know if it will work, nor do I know what will happen if two different people are in one photo.

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LEGEND ,
Sep 03, 2025 Sep 03, 2025

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with this existing popular topic:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-ai-use-ai-to-recommend-composition-and-crop...

 

@Rafael _ Oz, having all the related requests in one thread is more likely to influence Adobe. That other thread already has 26 upvotes.

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LEGEND ,
Sep 03, 2025 Sep 03, 2025

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with this existing popular topic:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-ai-use-ai-to-recommend-composition-and-crop...

 

@Rafael _ Oz, having all the related requests in one thread is more likely to influence Adobe. That other thread already has 26 upvotes.

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LEGEND ,
Sep 03, 2025 Sep 03, 2025
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