P: Enable Zoom with Crop Tool

Wow JOhn the AnyCrop plugin looks really exciting! I just downloaded it and get a "An internal error has occured" message when I try to use it. I'm on an M1max Mac using the latest OS (12.6) and Lightroom Classic(11.5). Would love to hear a way to get this to work!

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I just released the next version of the Any Crop plugin, which includes the new Adjust Crop command for making fine adjustments to crops while zoomed in Develop.  It's not as convenient as having it built-in, but it should get the job done for most uses.  See it in action:

Thanks to @C.Cella for urging me to think about the issues.

@.jake. This is the exact same situation I am in - cropping/rotating high resolution paintings. Hopefully Adobe will eventually pick up on this thread & see that the solution already exists in the guided transform tool, as you mention.

A regular task I encounter is editing reproductions of artwork, such as paintings so that artists can display them in portfolios, make prints, etc... Often I am cropping in to the edge of a canvas and like to preserve as much of the painting in the frame as possible without a sloppy edge that reveals the background. I can zoom in and see within a pixel or two in the photoshop crop tool, but I do the brunt of my adjustments to straighten these pieces of artwork and adjust their color and exposure in Lightroom Classic, so it would save me some hassle if I was able to more acurately crop right from LRC. This is something that has nagged at me for quite some time and which I would like to see added. Simiar execution to how the little loupe box appears when placing guides in guided transform would be excellent.

I agree Earth Oliver. The current tool was just fine with 20mp camera files but is becomeing more and more inadequate as camera resolutions increase. Cropping 400MP camera files on a laptop display is a joke...

Yes, not being able to zoom in while cropping large images is about as bad as it gets. And the larger your image is, the further Lr zooms out! 

I agree. I work with 400MP files and need greater precision when cropping. 

Adobe, are you slepping ten years or what?????

In Lightroom Classic, Develop module. When trying to straighten an image under the Angle adjustment in the Crop & Straighten, you get lame targets that are difficult to get precise locations.

Using the Transform panel Guided brings up a simple cross hair with a zoom box that hovers nearby.

I would like to see the same cross hair & floating zoom box be used in the Angle adjustment under Crop & Straighten.
It's reusing the same code that already exists and making the product have a consistent look and feel.

@solutionboy 

The same magnifier tool that is in transform would be great. Adobe hass definately been ignoring this feature request for a LONG time.  My bigger issue is ignoring long standing bugs.