Crop a Photo to a Specific Aspect Ratio in Adobe Lightroom

Richard Harrington's five-minute tutorial covers cropping and resizing images in Adobe Lightroom to match aspect ratios needed for print, web and presentations — the description names 16:9 for video, 4:5, square formats and 5x7 prints as examples. It also walks through the crop overlay tool and shortcut keys, composition adjustments with grid overlays and the rule of thirds, Lightroom's non-destructive cropping, and creating virtual copies so one image can be exported at several different crops.

How to Crop and Resize Images in Lightroom | Perfect Aspect Ratios for Print and Web, by Richard Harrington on YouTube. 5 min.

Video length
5 min
Time to do it
Varies
Difficulty
Easy
Steps
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What this tutorial covers

  • Cropping to common aspect ratios, with 16:9, 4:5, square and 5x7 print given as examples.
  • Using the crop overlay tool and shortcut keys, plus composition adjustments via grid overlays and the rule of thirds while cropping.
  • Keeping crops non-destructive to preserve original image data, and using virtual copies to export multiple cropped versions.

Limits and exclusions

  • The supplied description does not name a Lightroom version or say whether it demonstrates Lightroom Classic or the cloud-based app, so exact menu locations are not confirmed by the evidence here.
  • No timestamps or chapters are supplied, so specific topics cannot be located within the five-minute runtime.

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