# Adding a forced aspect ratio to the crop augmentation

**URL:** <https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/adding-a-forced-aspect-ratio-to-the-crop-augmentation/3869>\
**Category:** 🛠️ Feature Reqs\
**Tags:** feature-request\
**Created:** [December 1, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/adding-a-forced-aspect-ratio-to-the-crop-augmentation/3869 "2023-12-01T16:37:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 1, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/adding-a-forced-aspect-ratio-to-the-crop-augmentation/3869/1 "2023-12-01T16:37:53Z")

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I have a bunch of 16:9 images in my dataset, but prefer to train on square images. It would be nice if I could force the aspect ratio of the cropping to 1:1. I can accomplish this in preprocessing but it throws away the edge data.