Lightroom Classic Crop Mark Overlay
March 16, 2019Lightroom Classic Crop Mark Overlay
With posting images to the internet you really have the freedom to crop you photos to any aspect ratio you deem necessary to make your photo look the way you need it to. Well lately I have been getting into printing out my photos for putting them into frames and hanging them on the wall. Well when you print your photos you need to crop them appropriately so they will fit the size frame you intend to put them into. While I was experimenting with Adobe Lightroom I found an interesting feature you might find helpful when using Lightroom. While in the crop tool of Lightroom I found an option new to me, that lets you overlay any of the various crop aspect ratios onto the image before you crop the photo. This can be very helpful for individuals like me that need to visualize what the crop will look like before I apply it to the photo. This feature while it is not new, was a surprise to me and something new I learned by accident just playing around with Lightroom today.
Below are the steps you will need to take to turn on the crop overlay feature to display any 1 or all of the crop aspect ratios onto your photo while in the crop tool.
1. Turn on the crop tool to see the standard grid of lines on your photo.
2. On the menu bar go to “Tools>Crop Guide Overlay>Aspect Ratio”. This will now show an overlay on your image of some of the aspect ratios.
3. Next go to the menu bar again “Tools>Crop Guide Overlay>Choose Aspect Ratios”.
4. Choose which of the Adobe Lightroom aspect ratios you wish to see overlaid on your photo. If you know you are not going to be using one of the aspect ratios you can choose not to see that particular one in the overlay.
Now when you go to the crop tool inside of lightroom you will see all the selected aspect ratios overlaid onto your picture. This will allow you to see how all of the aspect ratios will affect your photo when applied. This will prevent you from having to apply one aspect ration crop at a time and then reverting back because you did not like it. I hope this tip in Lightroom helps someone learning how to use Lightroom.
