P: Enable Zoom with Crop Tool

[defaultcqa9r4726x9k]

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.

[marvinaustin]

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.

[risottto]

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!

[Scott_Martin_]

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. :-] 

[johnrellis]

"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).

[Scott_Martin_]

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]

@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&noSynony...

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

https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?sort_by=-topicPostDate&filter=location,...

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...

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

This strongly supports my comment above.

[Scott_Martin_]

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]

@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?

[ben446]

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.

[C.Cella]

@ben446 

Adjust Crop can be used without ever opening the Crop Panel.

The only thing AdjustCrop doens't allow is to resize opposite edges at the same time like LrC allows.
But I am confident @johnrellis will implement it.

[Gabor Lenart]

If I want pixel perfect cropping, I can't do it in Lightroom because it is only able to do crop when the photo fits the display. It is especially frustrating with very high resolution photos on a smaller laptop screen. 

I would really like the option to zoom in when cropping, just like in Photoshop.

[Ian Lyons]

@Gabor Lenart 

I've merged your request into the existing authortive thread for zoom while cropping.