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Lightroom Classic: Crop improvements
One of the areas where Lightroom Classic has remained inadequate/under-developed has been the crop tool. I offer the following suggestions (which unfortunately should have been incorporated years ago.)
1) Content-aware crop for all images (not just panos). This should have been added years ago, shortly after it was added to PS. As LR is designed for processing many photos, telling customers we can just export to edit in PS is a weak cop-out. There is no good excuse for not offering this in LR Classic, as it should have been there at least 2 years ago.
2) Additional/expanded custom/user preset crop ratios. Like other presets and settings, we should be able to add more preset crop ratios and re-order them in the menu.
3) Improved Crop Aspect Controls. For years now, the crop tool has only had 2 poor options for crop orientation. Either click on "aspect" and then click on photo and drag and hope that you stop dragging while the crop box alternates between vertical and horizontal as the program chooses what it "thinks" you want. (That's being generous.) For how many DECADES have we had "page setup" options where you can just click on Vertical/Horizontal (portrait/landscape) orientations, yet this basic, fast, easy-to-use tool isn't available in Lightroom's crop dialog. We should be able to click or toggle between the two aspect, not be forced to click, drag hope we get the right orientation and then still need to adjust cropping. It is slow and falls way short. Your other suggestion is to unlock the crop and manually drag the sides. Another WEAK work-around instead of just having the obvious, industry standards that have existed for decades.
4) Improved Sync features. LR Classic needs the ability to easily sync our workspace settings via the cloud. ALL (or selected) presets, develop settings, panel layout, watermarks, and the like should be able to be synced via the cloud. This is even more important and obvious than raw files. Raw files/photo files are not stored in "hidden" places or system folders, the most important thing to offer to sync is the stuff that is harder for customers to find and requires more work to sync manually. When it comes to "sync" this was the most obvious thing to add, and the most needed... but it wasn't a priority because it doesn't use enough cloud space to be a new revenue stream by selling storage.
Frankly, I'm disappointed that I even need to be here to post this. These things should be totally obvious, especially to a company that thinks they are an industry leader.
These things are "no-brainers", yet these obvious things remain missing.
1) Content-aware crop for all images (not just panos). This should have been added years ago, shortly after it was added to PS. As LR is designed for processing many photos, telling customers we can just export to edit in PS is a weak cop-out. There is no good excuse for not offering this in LR Classic, as it should have been there at least 2 years ago.
2) Additional/expanded custom/user preset crop ratios. Like other presets and settings, we should be able to add more preset crop ratios and re-order them in the menu.
3) Improved Crop Aspect Controls. For years now, the crop tool has only had 2 poor options for crop orientation. Either click on "aspect" and then click on photo and drag and hope that you stop dragging while the crop box alternates between vertical and horizontal as the program chooses what it "thinks" you want. (That's being generous.) For how many DECADES have we had "page setup" options where you can just click on Vertical/Horizontal (portrait/landscape) orientations, yet this basic, fast, easy-to-use tool isn't available in Lightroom's crop dialog. We should be able to click or toggle between the two aspect, not be forced to click, drag hope we get the right orientation and then still need to adjust cropping. It is slow and falls way short. Your other suggestion is to unlock the crop and manually drag the sides. Another WEAK work-around instead of just having the obvious, industry standards that have existed for decades.
4) Improved Sync features. LR Classic needs the ability to easily sync our workspace settings via the cloud. ALL (or selected) presets, develop settings, panel layout, watermarks, and the like should be able to be synced via the cloud. This is even more important and obvious than raw files. Raw files/photo files are not stored in "hidden" places or system folders, the most important thing to offer to sync is the stuff that is harder for customers to find and requires more work to sync manually. When it comes to "sync" this was the most obvious thing to add, and the most needed... but it wasn't a priority because it doesn't use enough cloud space to be a new revenue stream by selling storage.
Frankly, I'm disappointed that I even need to be here to post this. These things should be totally obvious, especially to a company that thinks they are an industry leader.
These things are "no-brainers", yet these obvious things remain missing.
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Thank you for your enthusiasm for the Lightroom family of products. For your Ideas to gain more prominent notice and have maximum impact with the team, there are a few things you could do to help.
Ideas, or feature requests as some call them, work like this on the Feedback Forum: Each individual Idea is single post anchoring a thread. All of the people who have a similar idea and relate their rational will be merged into a single master post that contains all the comments on a single topic. This has a few advantages:
1. It gives Adobe a place to accumulate votes (by either creating a thread that is merged into the master thread or by hitting the [Me Too] button in the upper right corner. Adobe can see at a glance, search for, and rank the top features being requested without having to search for scattered posts. The engineering staff can read the user’s comments and divine the best ways to implement a given request.
2. By being a part of this master Idea thread, when an Idea comes to fruition and becomes an active feature in the software, Adobe updates this thread. Participants in the thread, those who’ve been merged in and those who have hit the [Me Too] button will be notified by email to updates and feature announcements related to the original request.
You can help us out by doing a few things to maximize your ideas’ impact. First, if you have an idea, search to see if idea is already posted as a formal Idea. If it is, hit the [Me Too] button and if you like add your individual comments to the thread. Second, if you don’t find the idea is already posted, create a new thread and post your idea for a new feature. Please keep the Ideas as one idea per thread so that we can merge them with the correct master threads if necessary. We don’t have a way to merge an Idea into multiple threads so if you make multiple feature requests in a single post, it is likely to get lost in the shuffle, lessening its impact,
Here are some existing threads to which you might want to add your voice:
#1 https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/name_custom_crops_in_lightroom
#2 https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-classic-cc-please-add-content-aware...
#3 Use the [ X ] key to toggle Landscape/Portrait in Crop mode
#4 Sync feature development takes place in the Lightroom Ecosystem clients. Lightroom Classic currently only receives performance and bug enhancements.
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_synchronize_presets_and_settings_using_creative_cloud
Consider voting for these existing feature requests and adding your thoughts to each. That is really the best way to get impact.
Thanks!
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Pano merge is ok since in the end, it creates a new DNG. Crop workflow isn't like it.
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