On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > LR only supports rulers in the Print module, where you need them for sizing > work to fit the paper it's going to be printed on. > > When you set the crop tool to a specific proportion in LR, you'll notice that > the lock icon in the cropping panel is locked. That means that no matter how > you change the area included by the crop, it will stay at those proportions. > You can then print it to whatever size output you want, based on resolution > and quality. > > If you click on the lock icon to unlock the specific proportions, you can > then adjust the proportions any way you want for a custom-shaped crop. but is there any way i can know what i am cropping to. when i do that Godfrey > > G > > On Aug 17, 2014, at 9:12 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I got to thinking today whilst working on the bluejay crop i posted >> earlier today. I had opened the photo in LR4.1 then transferred over >> to PSEL9 to try and cover up some uglyt part of the photo on the right >> side, a building behind my place. As usual i had no success so i tried >> a crop. The photo in question, a dng file, was 20.5 in by 13.5 in so i >> used the rulers to crap a rectangle of 5x7 that fit the photo nicely. >> I then went back to LR and telling the crop tool to set the crop to >> 5x7 and all it did was take a small portion off the right and left >> sides of the photo, it did not give me the tight crop PSEL9 did. I >> then used the aspect tool and drew a crop similar to the one in PS >> ,but because i don't have any rule guides in LR i could not tell if it >> was 5x7 or some fan tam number other than it looked close to the PS >> crop. >> >> So i guess i'm asking, is there anyway of getting rulers to show up in >> LR, or tell what my aspect crop is doing as far as inches. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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