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Nov 11, 2026 12:20 PM UTC
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Custom Crop Guides for Consistent Framing in Lightroom Desktop & Cloud

Please add custom horizontal and vertical guides to the Crop tool in Lightroom Desktop (cloud-based). I’d like to drag guides into the crop frame or enter an exact position as a percentage of the frame’s width or height.

The guides should stay anchored to the crop frame as I move or resize it. For example, when cropping a series of portraits to 4:5, I could place one horizontal guide 15% down from the top for the top of the head and another at 40% for the eyes. I could then reuse those guides across the series so the eyes and heads line up when the finished photos are viewed side by side.

For evenly spaced guides, I’d also like to set the number of rows and columns independently. For example, I could divide the frame into four rows and five columns using the same principle as the Rule of Thirds overlay.

Reusable crop guides would make it easier to keep the framing consistent across a whole series of portraits or product photos.