It would be helpful to indicate on the crop editor page if "Crop" is required. A red asterisk would be useful or, better yet, the option to add help text. Otherwise, a user who skips over the Crop button doesn't have any way to know that they need to crop until they receive the warning and are prevented from saving.
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