Lightroom: Sticky Control of Locked Crop?

What is the rule Lightroom uses to determine when the lock/unlock setting is sticky/remembered? I unlock and crop, then new picture, crop tool and it is locked again, or vice versa ... but just as often, the lock/unlock setting seems to stick. Anybody got a clue?

You know it's funny -- I've seen what seems to be funny behaviors, but I just opened LR, brought a shot into the Develop module, opened the Crop tool, set it to unlock. From there, I kept going from one thing to another -- another image, another folder, in and out of Developed, even closed and restarted LR, and every time I checked the lock was unlocked.

But, I believe that if you set an Aspect Ratio it will change it to Locked and you have to unlock it.

Try it out and let us know!

Sure, unlocked means free or arbitrary crop box shape; an aspect ratio is constrained, so it can't be unlocked. It probably would have been a better UI to just make "Free" another choice in the menu, but then you wouldn't have the cute little animated icon. Sometimes designers become too enamored of their clever ideas.

tzalman wrote in post #13193883
Sometimes designers become too enamored of their clever ideas.

Having been one, I gotta' agree! LOL.