Cropping tool behaviour issues?

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• October 02, 2021 11:21

I have been using C1 for a few weeks now, and need guidance on using the Cropping tool.

Here are some issues I am facing:

1. When you select a particular crop ratio, the crop doesn’t show up on the image, until you try to adjust it. And when you try to adjust it, it just plays hard to get. Lr has this sorted out so well, that when you select a particular aspect ratio, the crop tool instantly crops the image in that ratio, and the user just has to move it around to get the desired composition. C1 makes it so painful to use.

2. After selecting a particular crop ratio, and moving to the next image to crop it, the crop tool maintains the last aspect ratio. Just because I cropped one image as square does NOT mean I want that for the rest of my images. Lr automatically reverts the crop tool to ‘Original’, which makes so much sense. This is so incredibly annoying in C1.

Am I missing out on anything here? Pls guide.

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  SFA

  • October 02, 2021 11:50

  For 1.

  Just click on the border to get the ratio to change and then in towards the centre to be able to move it around

   

  For 2

  I think it depends on what you are used to and what sort of workflow you use.

  I mostly use the Unconstrained mode or, if producing output requiring a specific ratio, I might use the "Output" option and take the ratio for the output recipe. I think I would find it annoying to have to constantly change the ratio if I was cropping a batch of images to a certain format and it always reset.  

  Of course these sorts of preferences will always be a battle between the requirements of different workflows as well as differentiators between different products. We tend towards liking what we are used to using. Eventually.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • October 03, 2021 05:07

  Thanks SFA, 

  1 - The crop tool behaviour I notice is like this: E.g if you select a square ratio, and click on the border of the image, then the crop tool becomes a square, and you now have to reach out for the border of the crop tool to resize/ reposition it if required. This is unnecessary two steps.

  2 - As a wedding photographer, I end up delivering ~2000 images per wedding, and usually crop 90% of these images in some way or the other. The cropping has no relation to any output recipe (though I still have to learn the relation btn them, am hearing about it for the first time since I started using C1). And having to reset the crop tool after each pic can be pretty painful.

  Though its more about preference, but I guess its more natural to have it reset after each image. 

   

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