Cropping - slightly annoying experiences

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Cropping - slightly annoying experiences

I'm cropping a large number of images for a custom wedding album. One image might be square, the next 8 x 10, the next 5 x 7 and so on. I'm finding the cropping tool somewhat frustating.

First, I'd like it to remember my last crop size. Where possible I try to work with all the images which are likely to be the same size. But, when I hit the C key, it seems as if it's a lottery as to what numbers will appear by default - even if I've just cropped an images to a particular size.

More disturbing, however, is when I revisit images that I have cropped. Because the default values in the crop dialog are seemingly random, I have no way of knowing for sure that the image is precisely cropped or not.

Has anyone else experienced this frustration, and/or have any advice on how to approach this ?

I am concerned, because on a couple of occasions I'm sure I have experienced one or two images which ended up cropped differently to where I had left them.

Thanks,

Paul

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 23" Cinema Display

Posted on Aug 6, 2007 7:34 AM

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Escaport

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Sep 30, 2007 12:03 PM in response to MacPaul

I have recently started shooting a lot of sports images. Yesterday I shot 3200 frames. Now I'm going back an culling the out of focus and other stuff with which Aperture excels.

That being said when I come back to crop... I start day dreaming of choking the programmer that came up with Aperture's crop tool.

My favorite issue is when I have a portrait orientation photo. I press "C" to bring up the tool. I leave it set to "2 x 3" because as the previous poster said, it is a total crap shoot whether Aperture will remember that setting or not. So all of my images are cropped "2 x 3" or "3 x 2". What makes me pull my hair out is with a "2 x 3" oriented photo if I crop a "3 x 2" inside of it, I had better get the crop perfect the first time. If I don't, it will flop the crop back to "2 x 3" once I try and adjust the crop. This is a nice time waster. With this error, it turns 5 hours of cropping for me into a full day.

*Who do I have to kill, beg, or bribe to get a crop tool that remembers it's state from the previous use?* _Who decided that it was better to let Aperture decide what the next crop should be instead of the user?_ +Leave the tool dumb and I and most others would be giddy!+

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