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Inspiring
May 13, 2011
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P: Change to crop tool behavior when changing aspect ratio

  • May 13, 2011
  • 6 replies
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When I have a crop already selected in the crop & straighten tool, I find it unexpected that when I change the aspect ratio, the crop changes to centered but maximally-expanded. It would seem more natural to me to relate the new cropping to the existing one, eg. by keeping the same center point or the same lower-left point, etc. Of course the boundary cases where the new selection runs into the edge of the image would have to be handled, but when I eg. have original (3x2) selected but want to recrop for an 8x10 print, I want the selected region to pretty much stay the same, which is more difficult to get right when I have to start from scratch instead of making minor adjustments.

6 replies

Participant
February 8, 2013
This current behavior is so painful it has forced me to use the tool in a completely different, and less efficient way. (unlock aspect ratio, drag an edge, watch the display of aspect ratio switch from "Custom" to the desired ratio, relock. It works but what a pain!

Please fix this.
Participating Frequently
August 31, 2012
Good idea. This has caught me off guard many times.
Inspiring
August 3, 2012
Agreed. Very annoying.

Rob Cole has made a new plugin which does this, but in a rather cumbersome way caused by limitations in the Lightroom API:
http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAn...

Let us hope for native implementation of this functionality so we don't have to use workarounds.
Participating Frequently
July 20, 2011
Duh...
areohbee
Legend
May 13, 2011
Amen...
Inspiring
May 13, 2011
Absolutely agree. This is a big pain.