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ladyjulian
Joined: 06 Apr 2012
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:33 am
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Lightroom is not letting me zoom to 100% AND crop at the same time. When I try to crop, the picture snaps back to full size.
I've attached a smaller-than-500 pixels crop I did on Third Light for now, then I'm off to check my Lightroom Help file to see what I'm missing regarding 100% crops.
Thanks for the tip re. noise. Usually noise looks "colorful" to me (lots of colors on the black), not just pixelated, so I guess I'm just learning something new.
OK, here's the photo. I'm gonna go read Lightroom Help.
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semmickphoto
Joined: 12 Feb 2012
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Location: Stuck between a shutter and a hard place
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:00 am
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Dont use lightroom to crop, its a ligthroom not a full blown photo editor, use a photoshop
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ladyjulian
Joined: 06 Apr 2012
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:11 am
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*Sigh . . .
Okay, thanks, I'll look into a photoshop.
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jhuls
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Posts: 1046
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:13 am
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This is not pixels it is noise and artifacts. If you have shot with a lot of noise and then use noise reduction software this is what you will get.
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hhltdave5
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 24088
Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:20 am
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| ladyjulian wrote: | *Sigh . . .
Okay, thanks, I'll look into a photoshop. |
Before you go out and spend $600 on photoshop you need to first determine your needs. You can get Elements which is like Photoshops little brother but you will get just about everything you will ever need to edit images. It will cost about $120.00.
You can also go the route of using Gimp which is a free program and will allow you to crop and do general editing as well.
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dambuster
Joined: 12 Jun 2008
Posts: 137
Location: Yorkshire, England.
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:22 am
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| semmickphoto wrote: | | Dont use lightroom to crop, its a ligthroom not a full blown photo editor, use a photoshop |
There is absolutely nothing wrong with lightroom for cropping, whatsoever, its actually very good. I'm sure there are lots of people here that use it successfully. Sure photoshop is great if you wanna mess about with your pictures and add stuff, take stuff away, sky's etc etc, but if you have a decent photograph to start with, made in camera, in my very humble opinion Lightroom is all you need. Plus it's a boatload cheaper than full blown photoshop.
Lady Julian, Scott Kelby has produced a fabulous book for lightroom, full of tips, tricks, and how to use it properly, I bought it and learned a lot, I probably don't even use 10% of what it is capable of ( maybe I should )
In a nutshell, if your photo's are good, lightroom should suit you fine.
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rinder99
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:27 am
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Thats noise and a lot of it.
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jeffbanke
Joined: 18 Dec 2005
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Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:50 am
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| rinder99 wrote: | | Thats noise and a lot of it. |
I agree, and it looks like some sharpening has been added in the camera probably? Is it a JPG, if so check the camera settings?
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jeffbanke
Joined: 18 Dec 2005
Posts: 17467
Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:58 am
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| dambuster wrote: | | semmickphoto wrote: | | Dont use lightroom to crop, its a ligthroom not a full blown photo editor, use a photoshop |
There is absolutely nothing wrong with lightroom for cropping, whatsoever, its actually very good. I'm sure there are lots of people here that use it successfully. Sure photoshop is great if you wanna mess about with your pictures and add stuff, take stuff away, sky's etc etc, but if you have a decent photograph to start with, made in camera, in my very humble opinion Lightroom is all you need. Plus it's a boatload cheaper than full blown photoshop.
Lady Julian, Scott Kelby has produced a fabulous book for lightroom, full of tips, tricks, and how to use it properly, I bought it and learned a lot, I probably don't even use 10% of what it is capable of ( maybe I should )
In a nutshell, if your photo's are good, lightroom should suit you fine. |
Scott Kelby also on a recent webcast stated that Lightroom was created for photographers and is better than BRIDGE (he does not like bridge at all), personally I do like Bridge, and can see no place in my workflow for Lightroom, but it has adopted more an more features from PS, to the point it is really all one needs IF one does not have to do any layering. It is much like ACR in that all the tweaks are non-destructive and essentially do not change the original file. Like ACR it opens JPG's and allows non-destructive changes to them, until one saves as a new file, if one saves back to the original file, then of course the changes become destructive.
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semmickphoto
Joined: 12 Feb 2012
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Location: Stuck between a shutter and a hard place
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 11:10 am
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| dambuster wrote: | | semmickphoto wrote: | | Dont use lightroom to crop, its a ligthroom not a full blown photo editor, use a photoshop |
There is absolutely nothing wrong with lightroom for cropping, whatsoever, its actually very good. I'm sure there are lots of people here that use it successfully. Sure photoshop is great if you wanna mess about with your pictures and add stuff, take stuff away, sky's etc etc, but if you have a decent photograph to start with, made in camera, in my very humble opinion Lightroom is all you need. Plus it's a boatload cheaper than full blown photoshop.
Lady Julian, Scott Kelby has produced a fabulous book for lightroom, full of tips, tricks, and how to use it properly, I bought it and learned a lot, I probably don't even use 10% of what it is capable of ( maybe I should )
In a nutshell, if your photo's are good, lightroom should suit you fine. |
Do a 100% crop for me in lightroom please? Because I cant find that feature. You can crop the photo but you cant crop at 100% zoom
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ch4x4
Joined: 02 Jun 2011
Posts: 724
Location: Montreal, Canada
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:49 pm
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| semmickphoto wrote: | | dambuster wrote: | | semmickphoto wrote: | | Dont use lightroom to crop, its a ligthroom not a full blown photo editor, use a photoshop |
There is absolutely nothing wrong with lightroom for cropping, whatsoever, its actually very good. I'm sure there are lots of people here that use it successfully. Sure photoshop is great if you wanna mess about with your pictures and add stuff, take stuff away, sky's etc etc, but if you have a decent photograph to start with, made in camera, in my very humble opinion Lightroom is all you need. Plus it's a boatload cheaper than full blown photoshop.
Lady Julian, Scott Kelby has produced a fabulous book for lightroom, full of tips, tricks, and how to use it properly, I bought it and learned a lot, I probably don't even use 10% of what it is capable of ( maybe I should )
In a nutshell, if your photo's are good, lightroom should suit you fine. |
Do a 100% crop for me in lightroom please? Because I cant find that feature. You can crop the photo but you cant crop at 100% zoom |
You don't have to zoom in at 100% to do your crop. If you crop 500 pixels from the image, it doesn't matter if you are viewing it at 25%, 50%, 100% or 300%, you will always get the same 500 pixels from the image. What you are cropping is the image in memory that does NOT change size no matter at what zoom you're looking at it.
You can check this previous thread for more details: http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=117298
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semmickphoto
Joined: 12 Feb 2012
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Location: Stuck between a shutter and a hard place
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:58 pm
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| ch4x4 wrote: | | semmickphoto wrote: | | dambuster wrote: | | semmickphoto wrote: | | Dont use lightroom to crop, its a ligthroom not a full blown photo editor, use a photoshop |
There is absolutely nothing wrong with lightroom for cropping, whatsoever, its actually very good. I'm sure there are lots of people here that use it successfully. Sure photoshop is great if you wanna mess about with your pictures and add stuff, take stuff away, sky's etc etc, but if you have a decent photograph to start with, made in camera, in my very humble opinion Lightroom is all you need. Plus it's a boatload cheaper than full blown photoshop.
Lady Julian, Scott Kelby has produced a fabulous book for lightroom, full of tips, tricks, and how to use it properly, I bought it and learned a lot, I probably don't even use 10% of what it is capable of ( maybe I should )
In a nutshell, if your photo's are good, lightroom should suit you fine. |
Do a 100% crop for me in lightroom please? Because I cant find that feature. You can crop the photo but you cant crop at 100% zoom |
You don't have to zoom in at 100% to do your crop. If you crop 500 pixels from the image, it doesn't matter if you are viewing it at 25%, 50%, 100% or 300%, you will always get the same 500 pixels from the image. What you are cropping is the image in memory that does NOT change size no matter at what zoom you're looking at it.
You can check this previous thread for more details: http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=117298 |
I dont want to hijack this thread but I know how to do a 100% crop. And ligtroom doesnt tell you how big your crop frame is, there is no pixel count showing. So you have to guess.
And you still cant use the crop tool at 100% zoom because it will reset back to fit the screen.
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greenfield54
Joined: 21 Jun 2009
Posts: 2617
Location: Philippines
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:17 pm
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| ladyjulian wrote: | *Sigh . . .
Okay, thanks, I'll look into a photoshop. |
I believe you can download the 30 day trial version of PS.
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jhuls
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Posts: 1046
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:24 pm
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I use photoshop elements 10 and I believe it has almost everything most photographers need to edit their photos. Every once and awhile I run across something I wish I had, but most people don't do as much manipulating and combining images as I do so you wouldn't use half the stuff I use anyway. I got it on a Christmas special for around $50 but I think you can get it for around $75 to $100 regularly.
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ruxpriencdiam
Joined: 07 May 2009
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Location: Third Stone from the Sun
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 9:37 pm
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If you have a child in School you can get the student discount on all PS programs.
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