P: Crop to specific pixel dimensions

Still nothing in that direction. More: I cannot find the XmpCrop plugin nowhere. Really?!?

One year ago this was a topic. Checking back in to see if there's any progress, nope! Just upgraded to LR 6 and still must use a convoluted workaround.

guy = gui (autocorrect fail)

Hi Rikk,
The issue in my case is the line between photography and video isn't clearly delineated like it was 10 years ago. I'm using the software for photography, and also for videography, because video is just 30 pictures a second (when I'm shooting time-lapse, I'm getting 300-1000 giant photos from the camera and making 1 or more smaller videos out of all that data)

Because I'm shooting time-lapse, I have 2 different problems that should be easily solvable by adobe, (or even easier, by letting plugin developers have access to more under the hood)

1) I need to put image data (date and time of exposure) into the image. I'd prefer to do this in AE or Premiere, but hey, in either case the data's all there, the functionality isn't. (and we're talking about a couple lines of code, build a function and make an accommodation in the guy, we aren't talking about redesigning anything from the ground up) I need this functionality because a client is making a creative choice. As I've researched possible ways to burn time into images, I've seen a lot of people that want to do the same thing for scientific research. So it's not just me, there's a lot of people that do time-lapse that are hacking it out to make it work, and it would be helpful if Adobe would throw someone on it for a couple weeks and add the functionality to their software.

2) I can shoot an event, in this case a bridge going up, and I can make 1 wide shot, and 3 tight shots with the same frame, giving myself 4 shots out of the work one camera is doing. Which saves me renting 3 additional cameras, 3 additional lenses, tripods, sandbags, rain covers... you get the idea. So It would be helpful to be able to batch process the frames in lightroom and know that my frame is 1920x1080 without having to measure on the screen (which is what I did last night) In this case, the coding is even easier! The software is already doing that math! I just need a box that lets me design the size. As I mentioned, I could do this in AE, but in this case I have to have it happen in Lightroom because I need to go to a 3rd party application to burn timecode into frames since Adobe hasn't figured out problem 1 above.

Hope that helps explain where my issue is coming from.
-Jon

Each has his own needs and ours is different. The product doesn't work for our needs and a Image-First approach definitely would not work.good day.

Dan, it isn't a no-brainer. If it were, I wouldn't have asked the question.

My personal belief (not necessarily Adobe's) is that you crop for the image's strength first. You crop to fit a frame or container's aspect second (placeholder, photo paper dimensions, etc). Then output is to a size that is appropriate for reproduction (if necessary).

I used to crop as you wish to: in Photoshop, with specific (sometimes arbitrarily assigned) pixel dimensions. As a graphic designer for print and screen it was sometimes necessary - to fit a specific container. I often ended up with less-strong images because the image content wasn't dictating the crop. When I abandoned the Container-first strategy, and went to an Image-First approach, the work improved. I honestly can't remember the last time, I filled in the values in a Photoshop crop.

Again, these are just my personal beliefs.

If I could understand what was lacking about Lightroom's current cropping/image sizing upon output it might help. I consider Lightroom's method to be vastly superior to Photoshop's but I am always willing to listen.

Hi Rikk,

I'm a bit surprised why several people have said why is this necessary. Cropping to a specific pixel dimension should be a no brainer and "not to aspect ratio". It is in Photoshop and we use everyday. We bought LR with the understanding it would. There is no "gain" in doing this it just part of our process and it sounds like others need this as well. Back to my question many months ago how to crop an image to 1601x1149. No solution unless we use Robs plug-in

Dan, I guess I would like to better understand why this is necessary. You can crop to your desired aspect ratio and you can export to a specific pixel dimension. What about a Pixel-Dimension Crop is required? What gain are you seeing by doing this? I am asking-not be facetious-but rather to understand.

I have a unneeded copy of Lightroom because of this lack of function if anyone is interested. "no way to guarantee a crop will come out on the 1920x1080 pixels but.." doesn't work.

While there is no way to guarantee a crop will come out on the 1920x1080 pixels but...

In the Export dialog is a checkbox for Resize to Fit. If you don't check it, you should never go past 1:1.

If you do check it, you can specify the physical output size in pixels and check the Don't Enlarge-again, it should never go past 1:1