On Aug 17, 2014, at 4:57 PM, David J Brooks <[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. There are a couple of ways of figuring out the proportion you've achieved with a custom-shaped crop. The most precise: Use the info overlay to display the cropped dimensions in pixels. From that you can calculate, to arbitrary accuracy, exactly what your crop proportions are. For example: I have a photo that I originally cropped square, but it needed a little more width than height to achieve what I wanted. So I unlocked the crop proportions and dragged out the width to meet my desire. Now the pixel dimension are 1918 x 1331. A little division, then multiplication by 2 nets this to be a 2.88:2 proportion, darn close to a 3:2 proportion. It's close enough that I might save that and try a 3:2 proportion if I want to be able to use standard printing templates or frames. A good approximation: While the cropping tool is active, press the O key. You'll see the crop overlay cycle through various grid and other options until you get to one that has format proportion lines - 4x5, 5x7, and 2x3. As you move the cropping around, you can see how close you are to one of these three standards. G -- 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.
