P: Lightroom area selection

too many steps for me... but it's a better option to the crop tool. Thank you!

To add my two cents worth. Add a option in a mask selection to accomplish this.

Exactly my point. The equivalent of a marquee tool to quickly get a reading of a specific area would be very helpful to me. 

A crop will work for that nicely and seems to be little more effort than the marquee tool in PS. My very first action in any image in LrC is always to crop. 

Im just looking to easily get a histogram reading of a specific area of the image. That's all.

Im just looking to easily get a histogram reading of a specific area of the image. That's all.

One of the great benefits of LrC is it's non-destructive way of processing images. Nearly all the things you do in LrC can be re-done at any time in the future. I'm not sure how your suggestion could be accomplished within the basic way LrC works. Deletions and other adjustments do not actually happen to an images, adjustments are just reflected in the on screen presentation of the previews LrC creates on import.

Thank you!

@Bia De Oliveira 

I've moved your post from Photoshop to Lightroom for you.

Jane