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Do not carry last crop ratio selection to next image

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When selecting Crop on an image then moving the boundary the crop is automatically resized to the last selected crop ratio. For example, I have an image which was cropped 'unconstrained' but my last crop selection (with another image) was 4:5. The moment I moved the crop boundary the crop was adjusted to 4:5 and not 'unconstrained'. This is bad because to adjust an already cropped image I now have to 'undo' the new crop, change the ratio then re-crop.

My request is that the

  1. last crop ratio selected not be carrier over to the next image or,
  2. if an image has already been cropped, ignore the last crop setting an remember the current images' ratio.

I prefer option 2.

Thanks.

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Fully agree with option 2.

    There is no way to currently figure out the current crop ratio without using a calculator. I often have three of four different versions of the same raw with slightly different crops and you have to use either annotation, colour tagging or keywording for remembering the crop used.

    Frank

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  • Lily

    Hi Michael,

     

    Thank you for feedback on Capture One - this is always welcomed and encouraged among our users and we appreciate the time you've taken to contribute towards the development of the software.

     

    I have forwarded your comments and suggestions to our Product Management team as something to consider in a future release.

     

    Whilst we cannot comment on future releases, we take all suggestions on board and hopefully your feedback contributes towards a future version of Capture One.

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  • Permanently deleted user

    That’s for requesting this. This behavior in C1 is driving me mad. In 99% of all cases when I touch existing crop markers in an image to resize it, I want to keep the aspect ratio. In 99% of all cases when I draw a new crop area, I am interested in the crop ratio that is set in the crop tool. I was absolutely disappointed that, even though they claimed to have overhauled the crop tool, they still released it with such a frustrating problem.

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  • Permanently deleted user

    C1 could either store the crop ratio for an image or calculate it from the current crop dimensions. It could show information about restricted crop ratios as a small overlay right next to the crop marks. You could have different colours for crop marks to distinguish unconstrained cropping from constrained. There are so many things that would make the current behaviour so more user friendly. 

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  • Permanently deleted user

    I had several lengthy discussion with the support team regarding this topic. From my point of view it is a severe inconsistency in the UI of Capture One. All other settings are always set to the last value used with the image selected. No-one could explain to me why this is different for cropping. Why should a change of the cropping start with the ratio / setting used for the image worked on before? If I want to do this I copy the settings as I do with all other. Just image that the color temperature would jump to the value used on the image one has been working before in the moment you start making a small modification.

    Capture One please change this annoying bug!

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  • Mike Maas

    Two year on and this is still a major issue.  The crop ratio should be the ratio that was already used in the image, not one set in another random image.  The default ratio for images not previously cropped should be original.  With the new crop engine in the latest CO release, build 15.2.0, this problem is only increased, by automatically cropping the to the ratio set in another image.

    Please correct this!

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  • Permanently deleted user
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    Yes, very frustrating!

    Compounding the problem, there's no way to know what the crop was. Say, photo 1 I have cropped at 16:9. Then I switched to other photos and cropped at 2:3. When I revert to photo 1 and try to move the crop a little to the right, the crop changes to 2:3, being the crop of the last photo. So now I need to select the photo 1 crop (16:9) which is not obvious to me, so I will test select whether it was 16:10 or 16:9. What a waste of time!

    Capture One, I hope you're reading this and kindly fix this soon! Thanks!

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  • Permanently deleted user

    Yes, I agree that this should be fixed - the crop ratio is absolutely part of the "recipe" for any given image.  Also, note that Lightroom does this.


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