Changing crop sizes in ACR

Hi Everyone
I have a question about cropping in camera raw. Lets say I have a batch of images open in camera raw which all have custom positioned crops at 900x600 pixels. I then want to change them all to 4x6 inch size. If I select all the images and go to the crop drop down and change the crop from 900x600 to 4x6 it goes through and repositions all the crops similar to the first image. The only way I have found to keep the crop positioning is to individually select each one and then change them from 900x600 to 4x6. Does anyone know another way to do this without losing the crop positioning. Since the sizes are proportionate to each other you would think there would be an easy solution but I haven't figured it out. By the way, I am using CS5. Any help would be appreciated.

This post belongs in the Camera Raw forum but I'll answer it anyway...
The Crop tool now operates in ratios only. I believe this was done to support a resolution independent workflow, which helps when creating images for multiple output workflows (print, web, video...).
You still have control over the size and resolution, but this was moved to the Workflow Options dialog box, which opens when you click the blue underlined text at the bottom of the Camera Raw dialog box. You can use the Resize to Fit options to output one image or a batch to specific size and resolution settings, which in a lot of ways is more flexible than the way it used to work. It's also now more consistent with how it works in Lightroom.

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Ok, so, what I did:
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When changing the canvas size of a smart object, the layer on the original document will distort visually since it doesn't update the size of the smart object.
Is there a solution to this, or an easy way to quickly update every instance of the smart object on the original doc?
To clarify: I know that you can change the dimensions of the smart object on the original doc and it'll fix it, my question is if there's a way to automatically have that happen and have the original doc smart objects respect your canvas size changes on the smart object doc.
Reproduce:
1) Draw a circle
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xg3 wrote:
When changing the canvas size of a smart object, the layer on the original document will distort visually since it doesn't update the size of the smart object.
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I think what you did was to open the smart object in photoshop change its canvas saze then save it. The updated smart object is realy round but you dont see that it is becaue it is being transformec ti fit the original documents canvas. If you do a Canvas size on the codument you will see the original docyment canvas size is not change and thet your now squaching a now changed taller object into a shorter canvas. With each Smart Obkect layer there is as associated transform.
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