P: Enable Zoom with Crop Tool

Report · Apr 04, 2012

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.

Report · Dec 09, 2022

Dear Adobe,

It would be so useful to be able to straighten horizons when zoomed in to an image. Currently, it is only possible when in crop mode with the full photo visible but when using a smaller laptop or when only a small amount of horizon is visible, and especially when pictures are in portrait it can be difficult to get the horizon nailed with the straighten tool.

If it were possible to zoom in to the horizon in an image and straighten from there, it would make things SO much easier!

Thanks!

Adam

Report · Dec 10, 2022

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Being able to use the Crop tool while zoomed is a very old feature request that many have asked for. Meanwhile, you could use the Any Crop plugin's Adjust Crop command to adjust crops and angles while zoomed in. See this screen recording:

Report · Dec 10, 2022

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with the existing Idea:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-enable-zoom-with-crop-tool/idi-p/12249267

Report · Mar 14, 2023

Amazing that this feature was first asked for over ten years ago and nothing has been done to implement it.

Both DXO Photo Lab and Capture One have this feature working intuitively and well.

Report · Mar 14, 2023

@PaulHolman No need to look far at other softwares...LrMobile has crop while zooming.

I recommend you to use Any Crop by @johnrellis

In the last months I have basically never used Post Crop in LrC as it is obsolete.

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Report · Mar 14, 2023

@PaulHolman Yes, i'm pretty sure that Classic is the only app in existence that doesn't allow users to zoom while cropping. More than likely, someone on that team just doesn't want to admit that they were wrong about users wanting/needing to do so.

Report · Mar 30, 2023

With the advent of multi megapixel sensors it is possible to perform extreme crops and still maintain saisfactory image quality. However, when the crop tool is selected in Lightroom Classic the view reverts to "FIT" the entire image, making precise cropping difficult.

It would be helpful to use the selected zoom level, eg 100%, when cropping.

The workaround, exporting a rough crop and refining on the saved image is not really satisfactory.

Report · Mar 30, 2023

@Timothy J Smallwood, while waiting for Adobe to implement this much-needed feature, try the Adjust Crop command of the Any Crop plugin:

Report · Apr 07, 2023

In ACR is possible to crop while Zoomed.

Why ACR yes and LrC no?!

There are millions of paying LrC users that are forced to use/switch to ACR to do the job while it should be doable in LrC.

I find this profoundly unjust.

Report · Apr 10, 2023

Please enable this feature as not all landscape photos have a horizon line stretching across the entire image. I often have images of harbours or bays where only 25-30% of the image has a horizon line and the rest is land. Its very difficult to get the horizon correct in these images without the ability to zoom.

Report · Apr 18, 2023

We as end-users need to get this VERY IMPORTANT feature added..... The ability to zoom in/create a loupe/magnifyer when cropping an image brought into LRC is a MUST! I work in the Library system for a state university and I digitize historical images and documents for future preservation. I don't see how Adobe has allowed for this to go unattended. With all the updates, add-ons, etc. that have been created, zooming while cropping HAS to be integrated. I cannot stress this enough Adobe! Please, please get this into your next update. When cropping any image/item LRC shows a standard crop frame over the entire item/image. I need to be able to see the finite edge of what I am cropping so that valuable information is not lost forever in the initial phase of transition from physical negative/print to a digital file. This is EXTREMELY important when arhiving. I know for a fact that information is being left on the "cut room floor" that I am unable to see when cropping especially from a negative conversion to positive. Please, I beg of you Adobe, integrate a loupe or magnifier into the crop tool for a super precise crop! This would be worth its weight in gold to all users out there! Let's really push this feature to be TOP PRIORITY!!

Report · Apr 18, 2023

We as end-users need to get this VERY IMPORTANT feature added..... The ability to zoom in/create a loupe/magnifyer when cropping an image brought into LRC is a MUST! I work in the Library system for a state university and I digitize historical images and documents for future preservation. I don't see how Adobe has allowed for this to go unattended. With all the updates, add-ons, etc. that have been created, zooming while cropping HAS to be integrated. I cannot stress this enough Adobe! Please, please get this into your next update. When cropping any image/item LRC shows a standard crop frame over the entire item/image. I need to be able to see the finite edge of what I am cropping so that valuable information is not lost forever in the initial phase of transition from physical negative/print to a digital file. This is EXTREMELY important when arhiving. I know for a fact that information is being left on the "cut room floor" that I am unable to see when cropping especially from a negative conversion to positive. Please, I beg of you Adobe, integrate a loupe or magnifier into the crop tool for a super precise crop! This would be worth its weight in gold to all users out there! Let's really push this feature to be TOP PRIORITY!!

Report · Jun 01, 2023

When using the Crop Straighten Tool (the little ruler) to set horizontals (or verticals) it would be helpful if the tool displayed the same little magnifying glass that appears when setting Transform guides, helping with exact placement. When clicking Crop the image zooms (out) to a size fitting the display, sometimes making it difficult to hit the right location for the ruler. Showing the small magnifying glass for tools where exact placement is requred would be helpful and consistent.

Report · Jun 01, 2023

@Arne Rudi

Any Crop by @johnrellis is the here and now solution to our needs.

I have been using it daily for the last months and I have basically never needed to use LrC post crop.

Not only se can crop while zoomed-in but also cropped while zoomed-out which I find incredibly useful as it allows to get a better sense of the crop compared to LrC or ACR.

With Any Crop it is not possible to resize the opposite edges at the same time, that feature is still only available via the Post Crop tool but it's only a matter of time before John adds it.

Report · Jun 01, 2023

I just downloaded and installed AnyCrop - It's got a lot of other stuff I don't know if I'll use but I can confirm the 'Adjust' section gives you a little popup that gives you exactly what you need to zoom in on your cropping, using whatever zoom setting you choose for your Develop window. Many thanks for letting everyone know about that one!

Report · Jun 01, 2023

I think that's fine but I pay for Lightroom and this is a tool that EVERYONE wants - rather than paying for a 3rd party subscription (albeit 'pay what you feel its worth') it should be that Adobe want to build tools their fan base want?

Report · Jul 22, 2023

I cannot believe that a simple zoom window pop-up for the corner/edge being cropped has literally been pleaded for now going on 12 years, and is ignored. This is my main gripe with the software. Any app I have on my phone that does cropping has it, but one of the foremost pieces of photo software does not. This isn't just a fail, but it's a historical record of fail for all to see.

Report · Aug 20, 2023

Did they not add this yet? I am beyond frustrated, all I want to do is crop my artwork off its white wall. I just want to be able to see my corners better, like the loupe zoom in the straighten tool. I thought it used to be a crop in the transform straighten tool, but must have rememebered wrong.

Report · Aug 20, 2023

agreed

Report · Aug 25, 2023

I started my trial subscription just yesterday. I've been shooting RAW for only about half a year, and I started out using free open-source software (not sure if mentioning any specific apps by name is allowed on this proprietary forum).

Unfortunately, this means that even as a total beginner I'm already spoiled by the convenience of Adobe's free open-source competition. The Transform tools in the free software alternative are instantly intuitive, convenient and pixel precise -- even if you're totally new to RAW image processing. I managed to perfectly and precisely crop, rotate and straighten an image on my very first try, been 100% happy with it ever since.

At first I thought that I must surely have overlooked something in Lightroom because it simply cannot be true that you can't zoom in while using the crop tool in Lightroom. But then I found this thread, which dates back more than a decade (!!!), and Adobe still hasn't solved this very very very easy to solve issue.

This isn't even the first massive shortcoming of Adobe products vs. its free open-source competition, but it's a total red flag. At this rate, I'm definitely going to cancel my Adobe subscription, spend some of the money on a speedlight instead and donate the rest to the RAW software project of my choice. This is truly just unbelievable. How did this half-baked excuse for a crop "tool" ever get greenlit?

Report · Sep 20, 2023

Lightroom need the ability to zoom while cropping.

I saw a thread of 2012 that ask for that feature... We are now in 2023 !!! We are still waiting...
I saw that there is a plugin "Any crop" that exist. If someone can make that plugin, Adobe should be able to add it to its software !

Report · Oct 31, 2023

Magnifying Glass gadget for precise cropping

Magnifying Glass gadget to the Crop tool, similar to the Guided Vertical Position tool will be essencial for some types of work, such as photographing artworks

Report · Nov 17, 2023

Users have been pleading, begging, screaming, and cursing lighjtroom for 10-1/2 years now for this simple fix that nearly every other editing ap has had for those 10-1/2 years.

So, it looks like Adobe will just continue to ignore all the users. I wonder how many have abandonded LR/PS for ogther software. It is about to become one more.

I lost count of the threads on Reddit vides on YouTube etc. that are complaining about this for over 10 years.

Come on Adobe, gety of yopur fat ******* and listen to the people who are funding you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Simply ignoring the issue for 10 years is totally lame.

Report · Mar 17, 2024

Hi:) I often zoom in while looking at a photo in the Develop section of Lightroom Classic. Sometimes I want to crop it right from where it is zoomed in. Is there a way (or short cut command) that I can just crop what I am looking at when I zoom in on a photo? WIthout selecting the crop area becasue when I bring it into the Crop selection it loses the zoomed in portion I had. I have a Macbook Pro. Thank you

Report · Mar 17, 2024

This is a popular feature request, because it cannot be done right now.

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