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When I first used the cropping feature in Lightroom, I thought it was weird
and awkward—probably because I was so used to the Crop tool in older versions
of Photoshop—but once I got used to it, I realized that it's probably the best
cropping feature I've ever seen. This might throw you for a loop at first, but if
you try it with an open mind, I think you'll wind up falling in love with it. If you
try it and don't like it, make sure you read Step Six for how to crop more like you
used to in Photoshop (but don't forget that whole “open mind” thing).
Cropping Photos
Step One:
Here's the original photo. The shot is so
wide the action kind of gets lost, so we're
going to crop in tight to isolate the action.
Go to the Develop module and click on the
Crop Overlay tool (circled here in red) in the
toolbox above the Basic panel, and the Crop
& Straighten options will pop down below
it. This puts a “rule of thirds” grid overlay on
your image (to help with cropping composi-
tion), and you'll see four cropping corner
handles. To lock your aspect ratio (so your
crop is constrained to your photo's original
proportion), or unlock it if you want a
non-constrained freeform crop, click on
the lock icon near the top right of the
panel (as shown here).
Step Two:
To crop the photo, grab a corner handle
and drag inward to resize your Crop Over-
lay border. Here, I grabbed the bottom-right
corner handle and dragged diagonally in-
ward and I stopped just before I cut off
the bottom of the player's foot.
 
 
 
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