Lightroom and General Cropping question

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Hi,

Something I need to understand and am failing miserably on!

The cropping tool in Lightroom.

You can crop to a size or leave at "Original"

I assumed that if I leave at original, providing you crop dragging one of the corners e.g. keeping the aspect ratio the crop you select will enlarge to the original size as the off-camera size?? but losing pixels - Is this true?

Only I have cropped an image and to me it looks as if it has NOT kept the aspect ratio e.g. If it were to be printed the size wouldn't work or it would have to be cropped further to fit the paper. :shrug:

How does it work? - The original crop type selection I mean.

The other options are of course self-explanatory.
 
There are two parts to this. The Original refers to Aspect Ratio so if you take a 3:2 image, cropping on Original will start you at a 3:2 aspect ratio crop.

The second aspect is the padlock next to this. If it is unlocked, you can vary the aspect ratio by dragging. If it is locked, the aspect ratio will remain fixed as you make the crop bigger/smaller.

The size of the image is determined at export. You resize the image to be whatever you want it to be in the export dialogue.
 
Aaahh, I see. Well there was no resize at export as I like to keep them at max size and resolution 240dpi. That way I assume that then they can be printed at whatever size from a 6x4 up to a say 14x10 or even bigger if the image will allow.

Seems like the padlock is the answer to my question I will give it a go and see what I get from that.

I think what I want to achieve is to crop, but keep within the 3:2 aspect ratio at all times. So maybe the padlock is the answer!

Thanks for the quick response. Arad85
 
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