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Status Shipped
Workspace Feature requests
Categories Capture One Pro
Created by Вячеслав Мурашкин
Created on Aug 18, 2025

Automatic crop from JPG metadata (How not to apply crop?)

There is a big problem when reading the crop from the metadata of JPG files. Example - the photo was initially vertical raw, after which it was horizontal crop into Lightroom and exported. If such a JPG is opened in Capture One, the cropping that is prescribed in the metadata will be applied. It turns out that if there was a rotation or crop in Lightroom/ACR and then there was an export to JPG. When opening a file in Capture One, it overlays the original coordinates of the image location before cropping on the Lightroom/ACR crop. Although I couldn't find any program that would interpret this cropping in the same way. They all open the file as usual, without crop.


Screenshot 1 - how the Capture One interprets this JPG

Screenshot 2 - data from ExifTool

Metadata.txt - full data from ExifTool

Current workaround

There is no way around this problem. All the checkboxes from the metadata settings do not change anything. The crop is still applied. It only remains to change it manually. You can't reset the crop settings either

  • Admin
    Capture One Product Manager
    Aug 19, 2025

    Hi, we will have an update for this very soon, maybe this week.