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.
The plugin we all know and love is updated. The new version is pretty much the same as the old one, but you are able to set % of width/height instead of pixels on the watermarking to make sure the watermark scales with landscape/portrait.
Version 3.00, 23rd July 2009
Added support for inner borders!
A checkbox in the outer border sections allows you to manipulate the four borders at the same time.
Automatic update has been improved (although you won’t see the effect until the next version…)
Version 2.20, 14th July 2009
Border widths can now be a percentage of the longest/shortest side.
Problems related to the saving of presets containing multiple borders have now been solved (I hope!).
Couple of days ago I posted several photos from Lake Mackintosh, Tasmania and received quite a number of good feedback from my friends and the online community. Numerous people asked me on how to post process the photo. So here I am, presenting to you, my FIRST video tutorial.
You just need to have lightroom 2.0 upwards and the “PH in the city” preset.
I totally forgot where I downloaded it and couldn’t find it at Google. So here it is.
I, for one, believes interestingness depends on the eyes of beholder. But in this photo you can find several composition techniques.
Rule of third. Actually three of them. The wood, the mountain, and the skyline (1/3 of the frame)
Symmetry. Reflection of the mountain and sky creates this effect.
Frame. From using vignettes.
Foreground and Background interest. Landscape has to consist of background AND foreground to be interesting. in this case, the wood and pebbles as foreground, the mountain as midground, and the sky as background.
The serene feeling of the perfect still lake
I hope you benefit from my teaching, and please leave a comment
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So I posted a tutorial on how to create copyright signature with Lightroom sometime ago. I got some question from readers on how to put the copyright watermark into the border to not obstruct the photo itself. Now the answer is using Mogrify plugin to add border around the photo along with the watermark. Now [...]
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Some of you might wonder what Lightroom is? The short answer is “another image processing software from Adobe beside Photoshop and Elements”. The long answer would be “a freaking awesome software to help you process hundreds of photos in short amount of time by maximizing your work flow while utilizing presets and databases.” It might [...]
By far, this is my favorite preset since i begin to use lightroom, it gives such impressive and emotional effect that everybody who have seen my pics like it. Here is some example of the result:
(Click on each picture to enlarge)
You can get the preset from mikelao’s website here
For those of u who doesnt [...]
Alright, here comes my first try at writing lightroom tutorial. I discovered this technique by accident while editing my shots from Sydney last year. I’ll post the gallery sometime later. In order to do this editing, you need to have at least lightroom v2.0 and download the 300 preset by mikelao. Alright, lets get going.
First [...]
