Why do you not have rulers on Lightroom?

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This would be helpful for product shots (i.e. lighters and torches) that need to be cropped to have the same product height as their previous photos.

Rob_Cullen

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My “two pennies worth” on this question- The Lightroom apps are parametric editors (as opposed to Pixel based editors like Photoshop.).

A parametric photo editor is a non-destructive image editing application that saves edits as a set of instructions (parameters) rather than altering the original pixel data.

Until you export a derivative image (TIF, JPG), or open in a pixel editor after a crop in Lightroom, your image does not have ‘cropped’ pixel dimensions that can be related to a physical size by resolution (PPI). Only then, in a pixel editor, does a ruler make sense.

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Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.6, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.7, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

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szymon_5776

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I think I requested this too in another post! Literally the most obvious feature that should have been added since day one!

I don’t understand why developers haven’t added this, since the coding format already exists from other adobe apps (photoshop, premiere pro, etc)

I’m on Lightroom Cloud (Desktop) by the way.

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