LR automatically crops my photos during import!

[ShredRocket]

How do I set this so it doesn't?  This is fustrating! 

[Cornelia-I]

Hi ShredRocket,

This is a strange phenomenon - first we should establish what exactly it consists of.

(1) It might be a viewing problem: when you are in the import dialog, you might see the thumbnails with two black border stripes - which indicates that you see the jpgs embedded in raw files. When LR will have finished import, and have created its own previews, these might look slightly different, but certainly not really cropped.

(2) You might have inadvertently set wrong default develop settings for your camera (which do contain a crop).

(3) Or you might apply a crop as Develop Settings in your import dialog. Let's check this first: on the right hand panel in your import dialog, section "Apply During Import", make sure you select "None" in the field Develop Settings.

If the phenomen should still occur, I suspect (2). Go in the develop module and choose the crop tool for one such image. Can you set "Reset"? If yes, undo and leave the crop mode. Go to the menu "Develop - Set Default Settings". Then choose "Restore Adobe Default Settings".

"Update to current settings" might be what caused your phenomen, if you have chosen that previously on a cropped image.

You can still rectify away from adobe default, but be sure to do so in controlled mode... e.g. I have a camera for which I always choose the calibration profile "Camera Standard" rather than "Adobe standard", I do apply Clarity of +10 and Vibration of +25, enable Profile corrections and Remove Chromatic Aberration in Lens Corrections.

Once you have set the develop default settings back, go into Library module, select the inadvertently cropped images and use the Quick Develop Panel on the upper right hand to "Reset All", to apply these develop defaults to all selected images. This should un-apply all crops.

Good luck, Cornelia

[Hal P Anderson · Accepted solution]

There's another possibility: some cameras allow you to crop to non-native aspect ratios, and if you're shooting raw files, LR will respect those ratios and crop your images to match. That's how it works on my Olympus and Fuji cameras. If that's the case, the simple solution would be to set your camera back to whatever the native aspect ratio is.

Hal

[balazsorban]

It was the solution for me! Thanks!

[ShredRocket]

I want to thank both Cornelia and Hal for the responses and the information with regards to my dilemma!  Thank you both!!!

First, I decided to take Hal’s suggestion as this may be the root cause of my issue. I read through the owner’s manual to set the defaults for the image size.  Unfortunately the defaults are not called out explicitly.  However, the settings on the camera were on 16:9, so I set it to 3:2.  The 3:2 setting is typically default on my other cameras.  I then took a few pics using this setting then importing to LR. This took care of the auto crop during import!!

Secondly, I followed Cornella’s suggestions to see if LR setting was at default.  Fortunately, the settings were already at default.  I proceeded to follow the other steps Cornella has provided to reset all of the photos back to uncropped defaults.  All is well now!

Again thank you both!!!