Comments on: Friday Tip – Cropping the cool way

By: Jeff Davis

Jeff Davis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:41:37 +0000

Is there a way to crop in lightroom that would function like using crtl A ctrl T in Photoshop and hold ctrl and being able to pull the corners etc?. Just started using LR and like it so far but this is a technique I use a lot in an effort to compensate for curved lines in architecture photos. Thanks for all of your presets and other tips by the way.

By: usb

usb — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:42:00 +0000

Great tutorial thanks. Here is drop shadow generator: http://www.dropshadowz.net

By: Robert Morin

Robert Morin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:13:50 +0000

I would like to group free hand.
What am I missing can’t seem to do this. Thanks bob

By: Andreas Hitzig

Andreas Hitzig — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:09:52 +0000

Hi Matt,

thanks for this tip. Very usefull.

I’ve another question regarding croping. The size of my images is usually 3008 x 2000 pixels. Many times I would like to select a range of 1920 x 1200 pixels and use it as a desktop image, but I can’t find an easy way, how to select a range of that particular size with LR. I thought that I might be able to specify somewhere the exact size of the crop rectangle and then move this rectangle around on the original image and make my selection, but this seems not to be possible.

Any good tip ?

Best regards from Switzerland
Andreas

By: Irene Strowe

Irene Strowe — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:48:51 +0000

Hi Matt,

And anyone trolling the old comments. The answer to the drop shadow difference is that the drop shadow does not show while in Lightroom, only in the browser. So my results were the same as Matt’s when finished.

Cheers,
IS

By: Ali M.

Ali M. — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:19:37 +0000

Hi Matt,
Question about the crop tool…

I can’t seem to figure out if I can enter the exact pixel size I want for cropping. A lot of times I want to make sure that I don’t crop a photo smaller than a certain size (let’s say I don’t want it to end up smaller than 4 Mpix)… LR doesn’t display the size as you crop, nor does it let you enter a pixel size for the new size… is there a way to do this?

Thanks for your help!

By: Irene

Irene — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:05:02 +0000

Thanks Matt,

However, I get a different result using that check box. I have checked on the forums and can not find an answer. Here’s the difference between yours and mine.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=j160cl&s=3

Appreciate your taking the time to answer these posts and share your knowledge.

Thanks,
Irene

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:34:43 +0000

Th@nks Matt. This is a wise lesson for the next time. I also think it might have been the hdd that acts a bit funny lately. I just start from scratch.

By: mattk

mattk — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:29:15 +0000

Hi Irene,
I actually didn’t do anything. There’s a setting under the Appearance panel called “Add Drop Shadow to Photos”. I just turned it on and that’s what I got.

Thanks,
Matt

By: Irene

Irene — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:37:53 +0000

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your reassurance. I did update LR. So far it looks like CS2 with CR Plug-in Ver 3.7 is co-existing with Lightroom 1.4.1 with CR 4.4.1

I need the CS2 and Camera Raw to work since I make panoramas that are too wide for Lightroom.

I am still curious about the drop shadow in the Web preset you created with Kuler (May 6). Mine just do not look that nice and gradual and smooth. Care to share with us what is going on?

Regards,
Irene