Option to exclude crop when sending to PS

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When sending a photo into PS, next to "Edit a Copy with LR adjustments" could you PLEASE, add a check box asking whether or not to include the CROP that's on the photo.

That is the one adjustment that I almost never want to include!
I want to work on my full sized image. Then, when I get back into LR, I will reapply a nondestructive, adjustable crop.

It's very frustrating when you take a photo into PS, spend a lot of time on it....only to realize that you forgot to remove the crop prior to sending it into PS and you now have a permanently cropped edited photo.
 
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Don't add the crop until after you send the file to Photoshop. Or just remember to turn it off before sending it. I'm not understanding why, if this is such a common issue for you, that you don't just wait to crop your images until after Photoshop.

Am I missing something?
 
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You could do the crop on a Virtual Copy and send the master to PSCS w/o. Then you have both.

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Ian Farlow said:
Don't add the crop until after you send the file to Photoshop. Or just remember to turn it off before sending it. I'm not understanding why, if this is such a common issue for you, that you don't just wait to crop your images until after Photoshop.

Am I missing something?
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If I know upfront that I'm going to (soon) take a photo into PS, I'll hold off on the crop. But, for the most part, the large majority of my photos don't get taken into PS, so as I develop them I go ahead and apply whatever crop overlay I like (no big deal because I can always change it later if I change my mind, or if I want to print to a specific size...).
About 85% get cropped in some way. That way, they are ready for viewing, showing family members, watching slide shows, exporting to web...basically, they are done.

The problem is, if (sometime later) I decide to take some of these into PS. Of course I want my LR adjustments to apply, so I choose that option.
Well, that is, except for the crop. I would like that to remain a flexible and nondestructive overlay - not permanently crop my photo! Ugh.

Solutions:
1. TRY to REMEMBER to ALWAYS reset the crop first!
(This is what I currently do, but it's easy to forget. And it's frustrating if you spent significant time on a photo in PS, before you realize it)

2. Create Virtual Copies for 85% of my photos. Not really what I want to do for this one reason alone. That's just a lot of extra, and unnecessary, clutter.

3. My favorite solution: If it's not too difficult, could Adobe please include a simple "Include Crop?" checkbox next to the "Edit a Copy with LR adjustments" option. (or maybe, if it's easier, just a pop up box warning you that you are about to permantenly crop your photo, if it recognises that a crop overlay is in place).
Anything that would help us maintain the flexibility of our files would be greatly apprecitated.
 
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Okay. Makes sense, I guess. A dialog similar to the one that you get when copying develop settings might be a nice addition to the edit with Photoshop function. Then you could choose what Lightroom adjustments get sent to Photoshop, and since the result is a new file anyway, you don't end up with too many copies of an image (virtual copies or otherwise).
 
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Yes, that would be fabulous!
The crop is my main issue, but my guess is there are other people, who would prefer not to have things like the noise reduction filter, or sharpening applied to a photo that is being sent into PS.
At that point, they might want to start from scratch and use specialized software like Noise Ninja, or Photokit Sharpener...on their edited version.

A feature that I really like in LR is how (when you Export a file), LR let's you either choose to go to the dialog box, or you can choose "Export as Previous".
That option might be really nice because, most of the time, a user would probably be wanting the same settings over and over.


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Okay. Makes sense, I guess. A dialog similar to the one that you get when copying develop settings might be a nice addition to the edit with Photoshop function. Then you could choose what Lightroom adjustments get sent to Photoshop, and since the result is a new file anyway, you don't end up with too many copies of an image (virtual copies or otherwise).
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