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July 22, 2018
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Square (1:1) photos are not exported as 1:1

  • July 22, 2018
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I need a 1:1 photo, but Lightroom exports my image as 3104:3105.

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    Community Expert
    July 24, 2018

    xinux s right. Crops in Lightroom are done in fractional values. They are stored as floats and you can indeed crop in the middle of a pixel which could result in a 1-pixel difference between the horizontal and vertical dimension if you for example crop horizontally at pixel 100.25 to 1100.65 (which would give 1002 pixels) and vertically to pixels 200 to 1200.4 (rounding to 1001 pixels) even though the horizontal and vertical crop dimensions are identical. Lightroom should recognize this though and normally you shouldn't be able to make crops this way but there are cases in which it can happen such as syncing settings or applying presets..

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 24, 2018

    A would call that a technical explanation of a bug...

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 22, 2018

    Lightroom cannot crop on export, you have to do that first. So if the exported photo is not exactly square, then you did not crop it to an exactly square format.

    -- Johan W. Elzenga
    xinuxAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 22, 2018

    I have cropped the photo with a 1:1 aspect ratio selected.

    JohanElzenga
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 22, 2018

    No, I have not unlocked the aspect ratio.

    It does not happen on every photo. I am assuming it is some kind of rounding error.

    The photo I want as 1:1 is exported with a resolution of 3104x3105.

    This occurs on both Lightroom CC on windows, and on my android phone.


    I don’t see how this could be a rounding error. When both sides are equal, they will round off to the same value when you resize the image. No matter how large the rounding error. This sounds more like a bug, or like some user error after all. What is the size of the original image, and what settings do you use on export?

    -- Johan W. Elzenga