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PeterAit

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Cropping problem in LR
« on: December 26, 2010, 03:20:20 pm »

I have a horizontal photo and want to crop it to a vertical orientation - taller than it is wide, in other words. I also want to constrain the cropping so the width is 80% of the height in order to print on 8x10 inch paper. LR's preset cropping aspect ratio of 8 x 10 won't do this because it insists that the "10" be along the width of the original photo and the "8" be along the height of the original photo. If I enter a custom aspect ratio of 10 x 8 it does exactly the same thing. Is there any way to do what I want?
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Mac Mahon

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Re: Cropping problem in LR
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2010, 04:17:48 pm »

Peter
Select 8x10 as you are doing.
Drag your crop cursor off the crop corner and (attempt to) slide it below the crop.  Its aspect will change to vertical.  Like magic!
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Re: Cropping problem in LR
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2010, 07:12:55 pm »

... sorry.  Click and drag off crop corner ....  If you don't click, the cursor will change to enable crop rotate ...
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Re: Cropping problem in LR
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2010, 07:37:04 pm »

Thanks!
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Re: Cropping problem in LR
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2010, 07:50:15 pm »

With LR 3.x all you have to do is to hit the X key and the crop box will flip around.
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