Crop tool locked aspect ratio NOT ONLY when Unconstrained
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Hello,
In the user guide the ‘Crop tool overview’ section mentions: "The Shift key will lock the current aspect ratio when cropping with an unconstrained ratio." which it actually does.
Why does it have to only work "with an unconstrained ratio"? Could it work with any aspect ratio would it be a great time saver for me.
On the same job/series I work with different aspect ratios and before delivery I skip from one image to another and make new crop variants AND/OR fine tune previous crops (keeping the aspect ratio). But not being able to use the Shift-key/Lock-ratio without having to always check whether my crop tool is set on 4x5, 2x3… or Unconstrained makes it not as fluid as it could be.
[Edit] P.S. I was so surprised by the impossibility to use the lock-ratio feature, no matter what ratio the crop tool was set to, that I reported it as a bug of the beta version.
Gilles
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I agree.
Ian
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Surely the answer to the problem is skipping between different crops when the tool is set to a specific crop ration is simply to set the Crop tool to "Unconstrained" and then use the modifier described?
(Assuming that for some reason one is overriding the currently active Output Recipe as well.)
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@SFA
Yes you're right, that's the way it works but is not the fastest when you want to crop and/or review crops of a lot of images.
What I mean…
- picture 1: I apply a 4x5 crop
- picture 2: I just want to refine the "whatever ratio" crop the picture has, I then have to set the crop tool to "Unconstrained"
- picture 3: I'd like to crop it to 4x5 so I have to (re)set the crop tool back to 4x5, just where it was a couple of seconds ago
- … on and on
Gilles
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Hi Gilles,
Thank you for this suggestion provided.
I have forwarded that to the Product Management team for review and further consideration.
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Hi,
for me the issue (missing functionality) is even bigger. Coming back to an image and changing the crop ratio chosen takes more steps than needed (as Gilles explains). Even worse is, at least for me, that I need a calculator to actually find out the crop ratio used on a particular image because Capture One does not show it but rather the crop ratio used before on some other image.
Best
Frank
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This could also be mitigated by not using a pop up window to set or change crop setting (or brush settings) but by making them always visible in the toolbar whenever the tool is selected. I’ll post this as a new feature request.
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@Frank Lison
I have exactly the same problem like you…
Why I have to calculate my applied Aspect Ratio to an image with an external calculator-app?
Is there any reason why the applied aspect ratio for an image cannot be saved to the image itself and be shown when you come back to it?
I apply different aspect ratios to almost all of my images and this missing feature is for ME a BIG annoyance and frankly almost a reason to go back to the hell of Adobe ;)
Probably the Capture One team will eventually implement a solution for our problem in C1 30 after a few thousands of complaints more I guess… Lol
:) Balthus
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This is a high frequency pain point for me. I'm in disbelief that such a impactful likely low cost to fix user experience bug doesn't seemed to have been addressed in such a mature product.
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