There’s a terribly bad bug when previewing image cropping. If you click on an image and hold the cursor down, to preview the image area beyond the picture box window, InDesign literally moves the image inside by a few pixels, so, a) it doesn’t accurately show where you HAD the image placed, and b) you always have to Undo Move Item to restore where you had it placed, which makes picture cropping preview completely useless.

A simple fix would be to show a ghost of what is being cropped when you select the image so that it shows the move area icon and image size.

My field may be unique because I am always having to extremely critical image cropping, to the very pixel. I can’t always do critical cropping in Photoshop before importing into InDesign.

There’s another area for improvement too, when you are resizing an image within the picture box with the red total image area highlighted, when you scale up or down, the X and Y measurements should display the live percentage changes as you the scale the image, so that you know when you are close to 100% reproduction size, for example. The X & Y percentages don’t update until you have finished resizing the picture. This is a missed opportunity.