Best workflow to make wallpapers starting from Lightroom

I'd like to start making wallpapers from some of photos and posting them to my site. I'd like to make the following pixel dimensions as outputs:
2880 x 1800 (Retina MacBook Pro)
2048 × 2048   (iPad)
2560 x 1440 (Desktop Computer 1)
2560 × 1600   (Desktop Computer 2)
640 × 1136     (iPhone 5)
I realize that these are all different aspect ratios, so I will have to manually make a crop decision on them.
I am wondering what the optimal workflow to achieve this is. Is there a solution that I can do completely inside of Lightroom that would make sense?
I'm going to pre-guess that the right answer to this question is that I should be taking my "finished" image from Lightroom, bringing it into Photoshop, and manually crop the pixel sizes that I need there.
Thanks for sharing your answer.

Thanks DJ, this worked out perfectly.
Here's the list that I ended up doing instead of what I posted above:
2880 x 1800 - 8:5 - 220 ppi (Retina MacBook Pro 15")
2048 × 2048 1:1 - 264 ppi (Retina iPad)
2560 x 1440 16:9 - 109 ppi (27" iMac)
640 × 1136 16:9 - 326 ppi (iPhone 5)

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