Lightroom Crop

[Lars]

Hi Kirk,

when does this crop freature comes again, which allows to crop in PM and preserve this crop when importing the image in Lightroom. It was available in 4.6.3 the last time but was one of the most usefull features ever!

Greets,
Lars

[Kirk Baker]

Lars,

when does this crop freature comes again, which allows to crop in PM and preserve this crop when importing the image in Lightroom. It was available in 4.6.3 the last time but was one of the most usefull features ever!

It wasn't reliable so it was removed.  The next major version of PM should have the compatible crop returning.

I don't have a release date for you.

-Kirk

[Lars]

Kirk,

what do you mean with "not reliable". What is/was the problem? I'm using this function every day on my MacBook and on my PC and it works always very fine.

A question to all photographers reading here and using PM and Lightroom/PS: what is your workflow without cropping in PM? I make my image selection, do the image description (IPTC catpioning) and the cropping in PM. Then I import the images into LR for image adjustments (WB, exposure corrections etc.) and make an export to JPEG, finally. Then I go back to PM to transfer the exported images via FTP etc.

Until now the reason for cropping in PM is, that it is much faster than cropping in LR or PS. So how do you do it?


Lars

[Kirk Baker]

Lars,

what do you mean with "not reliable". What is/was the problem? I'm using this function every day on my MacBook and on my PC and it works always very fine.

If you made a crop in Adobe's products and the crop had any rotation to it at all then the rotation would be lost if you used PM to refine the crop further.  A number of people complained about their crops being lost/damaged so we removed the feature.

-Kirk