Can the crop tool resize resolution be changed?

When using the crop tool, and resizing it via the mouse, the dimensions tend to jump by 6-15 pixels depending on the phase of the moon (or more likely which dimension I am changing).
It would be nice if I could get LR into a 1-pixel movement mode or otherwise be able to set an exact pixel size for the cropping. Putting my mouse into high-resolution mode does not help. The crop tool always runs in a "fit" zoom mode so cropping at 1:1 zoom is not an option.
The "custom aspect ratio" dialog does not get me there because it does not do pixel dimensions.
I am aware that after doing the crop, I could use the export tool to get the exact pixel dimensions, but that is not what I am looking for.

When you email a picture from Photos, you can choose the size.
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When i cropped a picture using the crop tool to 9x6" when it was printed everyone was stretched looking tall and thiner how can i crop pictures but keep the people looking as they do in real life?

oops put the while question in the wrong place!!! but I'm at a loss on how to do this every picture I took everyone looks stretched when I use the crop tool any help would be much appreciated,
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thank you

suzukidi wrote:
I have been trying so hard to try and get my head round this since your last comment so what I think I know is with my Nikon d80 having 3:2 aspect ratio pictures that I wanted printed can only be the sizes you mentioned above which is fine as the pictures I got printed were 9x6" but it's from now I'm still bit lost when I use the crop tool and pre set the size to 9x6" with a resolution of 240 and crop out all the bits I don't want it comes back from printers stretched so i'm still lost as I don't know the point where I'm doing something that causes the stretching? thank you for your patience
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Aspect Ratio is just the ratio of an image's two sides. Your camera captures an image with a 3:2 Aspect Ratio. If you want to print the whole image your camera captures it can be printed and image size that has sides the have a 3:2 ratio without distorting the image.
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