I got a question from my friend earlier this week when she watch me as I edited my photos. She was asking me how did I manage to crop my photos freely as Lightroom always restrict her cropping. By default Lightroom lock your aspect ratio to the width x height of your photos.
So how do you go around breaking it?
Its really simple, but I’ll give you step by step to make it even more simple.
1. Open Lightroom
2. Go to Develop Module
3. Press “R” or crop on the desired photo
You should see the cropping rectangle and the guidelines.
4. Right click on the photo and select “Constrain Aspect Ratio” or just press “A”
You can toggle the Constrain Aspect Ratio whenever you want.
5. Voila! Now you should be able to crop your photos freely without restriction!
How did you go with that?
I believe this simple steps should help you crop with more freedom from now on. If you can’t get it to work, just let me know and I’ll try to help you further.
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