Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC - Manual (Page 174)

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Processing and developing photos
Last updated 4/20/2015
Crop a photo
1 Select the Crop Overlay tool in the tool strip, or press R.
An outline with adjustment handles appears around the photo.
2 Drag in the photo with the Crop Frame pointer or drag a crop handle to set the crop boundary. Corner handles
adjust both image width and height.
Note: After you drag a crop handle, select the Crop Frame tool to use it.
3 Reposition the photo by dragging the photo within the crop frame using the Hand tool.
4 (Optional) Select Constrain To Warp to keep the crop bounding box within the image area when lens corrections
have been applied. Constrain To Warp prevents the photo from becoming distorted.
5 Click the Crop Overlay tool or press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS) when you’re finished cropping and
straightening.
Press O to cycle through grid overlays in the crop area. To display the grid only when cropping, choose Tools > Tool
Overlay > Auto Show. To turn off the grid, choose Tools > Tool Overlay > Never Show.
Crop to a specified aspect ratio
1 Select the Crop Overlay tool in the tool strip.
The padlock icon in the tool drawer indicates and controls whether the crop controls are constrained.
2 Choose an aspect ratio from the Aspect pop-up menu next to the padlock. Choose Original to specify the photo’s
original aspect ratio. Choose Enter Custom to specify an aspect ratio that is not listed.
Press Shift+A to select the Crop Overlay tool with the last-used aspect ratio.
Lightroom stores up to five custom crop ratios. If you create more than that, the older ones drop off the list.
3 Drag a crop handle to set the crop outline or drag with the Crop Frame tool .
Press Shift as you drag a crop handle to temporarily constrain to the current aspect ratio.
Switch crop orientation
1 Select the Crop Overlay tool in the tool strip.
2 Drag in the photo to set the crop boundary.
3 Press X to change the orientation from landscape to portrait or portrait to landscape.
Straighten a photo
❖ Select the Crop Overlay tool in the tool strip, and do one of the following:
• Rotate the photo using the Angle slider.
• Rotate the photo by moving the pointer outside a corner crop handle to display the Rotate icon , and then
drag to rotate the image. The axis of rotation is the center of the crop rectangle.
• Select the Angle tool , and then drag in the photo along a line that you want to be horizontal or vertical.
Holding down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) with the Straighten tool selected displays a grid that helps you
straighten the photo.