P: Enable Zoom with Crop Tool

I would also like to see pixel-resolution crop increments (and desensitized mouse), maybe if Alt key pressed or something, like point curves - so one can easily fine tune to exact crop desired once in the ball park.

I'm sure I'm just piling on the thousands of other requests for this, but it would be SO SO AWESOME if Lightroom provided the capability to zoom in while cropping to allow for precision crops. It's really frustrating - not to mention inefficient - to have to take a photo into Photoshop for something so basic as cropping. PLEASE, PLEASE help us!!

Right - got your point: makes exact crop sizes but doesn't help with need to be zoomed in for positioning. hmm...

Yes, that won't work either. It's a nice tool but doesn't do what I need. I need the ability to crop the same way LR does today... just while zoomed to the 1:1 level. Thanks anyway!

Thanks Rob! I'll go take a look! Much appreciated.

The moderator (Rikk) is having difficulties understanding "why" this feature is necessary so I will again attempt to explain further...

Some of our clients have very detailed products that must be cropped very precisely (at the pixel level). LR does not have the ability to do precise crops.

For example, in the video, I showed a piece of moulding. These mouldings are shot at a high resolution at very close range and no part of the edges of the frames can be cut off. With the granularity (or lack thereof) of LR's cropping feature, these edges can be cut off at times.

With the ability to zoom in to where the screen resolution matches the image resolution (i.e. 1:1), the user interface controls would then allow the user to crop images at the necessary level.

Hopefully, that helps explain why the feature is being requested.

Wil Bloodworth wrote:
|> "In my commercial work, I need the ability to crop images at the single pixel level."

XmpCrop is the only way I know to do that in Lightroom.

I love Lightroom and use it daily. There are a couple of features or fixes I would like to see in an upcoming release or patch. In my commercial work, I need the ability to crop images at the single pixel level. With all versions of lightroom, I have only been able to get lightroom to crop at a granularity of 7 pixels. This is very frustrating as I cannot crop to the exactness that I need for my clients.

In addition, or maybe related to this, when I enter crop mode the zoom level is automatically changed to fit the entire image of the viewing panel. This also makes it extremely difficult to get accurate crop (and straightening) results.

To give you an example of how frustrating this has become, I have created a short video for your convenience:

http://screencast.com/t/lB4DBWkQe

You are doing great work and each one is always better than the last. Please address these two issues as soon as you can. Thank you in advance!

Definitely need crop zoom. I'm shooting hyperlapse which requires the aligning hundreds of photos using crop and you need to see exactly where the grid falls on each frame in order for the sequence to render smoothly...I'm am going blind without being able to crop zoom;)

It would be a huge improvement to be able to use the "Straighten Tool" with the image zoomed.