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roselletorres
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April 27, 2026
Question

Why do you not have rulers on Lightroom?

  • April 27, 2026
  • 3 replies
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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.

    3 replies

    Rob_Cullen
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 10, 2026

    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.

     

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.4.1, Photoshop 27.8, ACR 18.4, Lightroom 9.4, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
    Known Participant
    May 10, 2026

    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.

    @CMass 

    CMass
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 9, 2026

    Hey ​@roselletorres
     

    Would this be for the Desktop, iPad, or Mobile version? Can you share more about in which tool you  you would like to see this ruler? 

    ^CMass