How can I export a JPEG from Lightroom with only crop/straightening applied?

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In Lightroom 5.7.1, I’ve already edited and exported a set of client photos. Now the client also wants “unedited” JPEGs, but I’d like those files to keep only the crop/straightening and remove the rest of the retouching. I do not want to export the original CR2 files, and I don’t want to lose my existing edits. What’s the best way to create/export JPEGs that keep just crop/straighten while preserving my current Lightroom work?

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I think I found a solution to your problem described by user C Wills in a DPReview Forums post from 2012. I have tried to make a step-by-step recipe of his advice here.

Part one - create an unedited photo to copy all settings but crop factor from:

  1. Create an unedited version of any photo in your Lightroom collection with no settings or modifications applied*.
  2. Go to the Library Module and select the unedited photo in 1.
  3. Select "Copy Settings" (Ctrl + Shift + C) - the "Copy Settings" panel opens.
  4. In the panel uncheck the settings you want to keep. So uncheck Crop settings in your case. I usually also uncheck Lens Corrections, Process version and Calibration since I like to keep those settings as well.
  5. Press the Copy button in the panel. The panel closes.

Part two - paste the settings from the unedited photo to virtual copies of your photos:

  1. Create virtual copies of all the photos you want to reset everything but their edited crop factor (Select the photos - press Ctrl + ')
  2. With all the new virtual copies selected (they're selected by default when making the copy) select "Paste settings" (Ctrl + Shift + V)

All settings that you had copied from the unedited photo are now applied to your selected virtual copies. You now have "unedited" versions of your photos with edited crop factor.

*) This explains how to make an unedited version of a photo from an edited version: 1. Create a virtual copy of any photo in your Lightroom collection with the same Process Version as the photos you want to reset (Ctrl + ') 2. Select the new virtual copy, and go to the Develop Module 3. Reset that photo back to it's original state with no changes by selecting pressing the Reset button in the bottom right corner of the right module panels or pressing Ctrl + Shift + R

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Lightroom doesn’t have a one-click export option for “crop only, no other edits.” A safe way is to make a separate version and copy only the settings you want.

Two workable methods:

  1. Create a duplicate/second copy of each photo, then use Copy Settings/Paste Settings.
  • Start from an unedited version.
  • On the edited photo, choose Copy Settings.
  • In the dialog, select only Crop (and any other settings you intentionally want to keep).
  • Paste those settings onto the unedited copy.
  • Export that copy as JPEG.
  1. If your history states are clean, use the History panel.
  • In Develop, click the history step where only straightening/cropping had been done.
  • Export as JPEG.
  • Then return to the latest history step to restore your full edit.

The first method is safer if you don’t want to risk altering your finished edits, especially for multiple files.

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