Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
While using the crop tool, moving your cursor outside of the cropped area changes the cursor to rotation. This has no visual indication as to when the cursor icon changes, essentially it's a hidden operation, which often comes with unintended consequences. Within the cropped area, click/drag will move the entire box. Outside of the cropped area, you can start a new cropping area by simply clicking and dragging... unless you're a little too close to the cropped corner/edge of the existing crop... where it turns into a completely different tool, and rotates the entire image. This is an overlapping feature that is unnecessary with keyboard shortcuts for both crop and rotate. What's more, there is no easy indication as to how may pixels the mouse must move before this functionality changes.
Additionally, holding the "shift" key triggers the same functionality that happens with the mouse cursor outside of the invisible rotation "hitbox" while in crop mode (e.g. you can be inside or outside of the cropped area and start a new crop, so long as you don't start too close to the current crop edge.
Also, holding the "command" key while in crop changes the cursor to rotate, regardless of where on the image you click/drag.
These features are very inconsistent. Tbh, if i want to "rotate" an image... a simple keyboard shortcut like holding "command" click/drag (or simply hitting 'r' to switch to the rotate tool) works great... but having the crop tool unexpectedly change and rotate an image while working on a crop is poor UX and regularly requires "undo" to revert unintended adjustments. I can easily run into this issue 10% of the time while going through 200-1000 shots for a sports photography event. that's a lot of re-work for a feature so heavily covered by so many options.
It's clear that many users utilize this functionality, however, it is confusing and often frustrating when any unexpected operation occurs. Ideally, keep the function for users that like it, but offer a toggle in the crop tool settings to disable for users that do not want it. Ideally, imo, replacing this "hitbox" area with a larger click/drag area for crop resizing (over the "start a new crop area" that occurs outside of the cropped area) would be preferred.
Current workaround
Regularly needing to "undo" the unexpected rotation Repositioning the cursor Re-do the crop adjustment as intended |