Crop & Focus Area 

When an image (a FAL FileReference) is rendered, the editor's crop variant is resolved server-side: imaginator reads the reference's crop JSON and fits the requested ratio inside the crop area, centered on the focus area. The framing the editor chose is honoured and in local:async mode the URL keys only on the reference uid (r…).

The ladder is bounded by the crop area, so a tightly-cropped region is never upscaled. A src given as a path or plain file uid (f…) has no crop data and is center-cropped to the ratio.