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April 4, 2012
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P: Enable Zoom with Crop Tool

  • April 4, 2012
  • 145 replies
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This may have already been suggested, but it would be nice if the zoom feature in Lightroom 4 could be enabled while using the crop tool to make refined adjustments to the crop area. At present, there is only a clumsy work-around using the secondary display for refined crop adjustments.

145 replies

ben446
Inspiring
April 16, 2025

AnyCrop tip:  you need to first make a crop with the LRC crop tool. Hit enter to apply it and then use AnyCrop 'Adjust Crop' to manipulate the crop including while zoomed in.

johnrellis
Legend
April 6, 2025

@Scott_Martin_: "Agree to disagree then."

 

It looks like you're agreeing with what I wrote previously: "Adobe does read most of the posts in the Bugs and Ideas sections and many if not most of the posts in the Discussions section, though they infrequently comment or act on the suggestions posted here." What are you disagreeing with?

Known Participant
April 1, 2025

Agree to disagree then. A forum moderator is not a person of consequence that can influence product development. I've spoken with many Lightroom product managers over the years, and they have had no knowledge of topics on this forum, nor great feature suggestions. Many engineers have privately acknowledged that this forum is a place for end users to vent about problems so they can be left alone. This is a buffer zone, not a place to communicate with the developers. If it were, why aren't they listening / reacting to really good basic concepts like precision cropping? And getting into arguments like this is a waste of everyone's time...

johnrellis
Legend
April 1, 2025

@johnrellis: "Adobe does read most of the posts in the Bugs and Ideas sections and many if not most of the posts in the Discussions section, though they infrequently comment or act on the suggestions posted here."

 

@Scott_Martin_: "Beg to differ on that."

 

Facts are stubborn things. Here are the posts in the Lightroom Classic forum by Adobe employee Rikk Flohr, whose title is Quality Engineering – Customer Advocacy for the Photography Products:

 

Bugs section (854 posts, Rikk is the primary moderator of which bug reports get relayed to the product team):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?filter=location,authorId&q=the&noSynonym=false&advanced=true&location=board:bug-lightroom-classic&sort_by=-topicPostDate&author_id=12732729&collapse_discussion=true&search_type=message

 

Ideas section (144 posts -- Rikk infrequently comments):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?sort_by=-topicPostDate&filter=location,authorId&q=the&noSynonym=false&advanced=true&location=board:idea-lightroom-classic&author_id=12732729&collapse_discussion=true&search_type=message

 

All sections (2199 posts, which include Bugs and Ideas -- no way to limit to just Discussions):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?filter=location,authorId&q=the&advanced=true&location=category:ct-lightroom-classic&sort_by=-topicPostDate&author_id=12732729&collapse_discussion=true&search_type=message

 

There are much smaller numbers of posts in Discussions and Bugs from Adobe customer-support employees.

 

This strongly supports my comment above.

 

Known Participant
April 1, 2025

Beg to differ on that. No Adobe emaployees of consequence are listening or acting on these forums. To think that they are is folly. I'm an old school insider saying this...

johnrellis
Legend
April 1, 2025

"there are no Adobe employees listening here"

 

Adobe does read most of the posts in the Bugs and Ideas sections and many if not most of the posts in the Discussions section, though they infrequently comment or act on the suggestions posted here. Adobe employee Rikk Flohr, who moderates this forum, is a member of the product team (not customer support).

Known Participant
April 1, 2025

Yes, indeed, and just a reminder that there are no Adobe employees listening here, jsut a bunch of well wishing and maybe a little disgruntled end users talking amoungst ourselves. :-] 

Known Participant
March 31, 2025

Still no progress on zooming while cropping, but in the latest 14.2 update the crop tool totally broke if you were in soft proofing mode!

Known Participant
March 6, 2025

One at a time. Sometimes neither reset cache nor resynchronization works. Only reboot Lr.To see the result. The option is not.
The option can be forgotten and not even hope for change in 20 years. Experience working with products by Adobe.

Known Participant
March 6, 2025

This company is the single player in the market for users who develop and process photos. Well, almost the single player.
I assure you - Adobe will never change anything. Knocking on the door is useless.
I read this thread. Is there no answer? -"the end".