Finding images cropped to a particular aspect ratio?

Hi,
Is it possible to search for images based on their cropping aspect ratio?
Andrew.

Inability to find images based on cropped aspect ratio is definitely pretty annoying. If I want to print a batch of 4x6 photos, I must now select the pictures I want to print and make sure they are indeed 2x3 or 4x6. This is just extra chore that would have otherwise been avoided.
What makes it really irritating is that LR already has this information. It can already display image based on cropped dimension, ie: 4752x3168, all it has to do is divide those two numbers and convert to a the smallest whole numbers, and you get the ratio of 3:2.
Furthermore, LR doesn't even have to do this calculation on every image. If the image was cropped using a pre-defined aspect ratio in the cropping tool, such as 1x1, 8x10, this information should already be part of the catalog. If you select an image and open the cropping tool, it shows what aspect ratio the image is cropped to, such as 8x10, 2x3, etc. I would assume it is easy to allow filtering/search based on the tool used.

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How to crop to a specific aspect ratio, then resize to specific size?

HI,
I need a running start, could someone please help me accomplish a specific task.
1) I need to be able to restrict a crop tool to a specific aspect ratio, then resize the cropping tool as I like to make my selection.
2) After, I need to resize the image to a set size... (so all my pictures wind up the same size.)
After I would normally set my text the way I like it and add text to every picture (so it is the same size in all photos.) and save them.
I do this in Paintshop with ease, but do not see the kind of controls on the cropping tool, or a place to resize an image other than the save.
I just purchased Photoshop/Lightroom so I am in this with both feet, I could really use the help to get started in this because I need to work on this now or or go back to Paintshop until I can figure it out when I get the time.
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OK, first a basic explanation: LR is not like Paintshop or Photoshop because it is a Raw converter and all Raw converters work non-destructively. This means that any edits that you set in the Develop panel are not actually carried out on the original image file, but rather only recorded for future reference. That future moment comes when you export (create and output) a new tif, psd or jpg file, send an image to Photoshop or some other secondary editor, or send the image to a printer.
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Thank You -- Will try. Will that give me a black box on top and bottom as oppsed to "just looking right" in the 4:3 tv.
It will look widescreen...correct?
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I have Lightroom but have never been able to get a workflow as efficient as the DPP flow for converting hundreds of RAW to small cropped JPGs.
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Help with custom cropping and known aspect Ratio's

I would like to crop a small part of a larger image with custom / free flow dimensions to the crop and then be able to print / export at a know print friendly aspect ration. An example would be a taking a crop of one person in a couple,from a larger image. The crop is outside common aspect ratios. Can lightroom fit the image to an aspect ratio of my liking whilst maintaining everything I have cropped?
Thank you in advance

Clearly we can't get one aspect ratio into a different aspect ratio without either trimming bits off, or else leaving gaps.
So the best I can suggest is: crop in Develop according to the subject content that you don't want to see.
Then in Print, set up your print layout (or choose a print template) which contains an image cell of the desired size and shape.
There are two ways that a photo can be put into such a cell: it can be fitted "loose" so that you always see the whole current crop, leaving white margins as required; or else it can be fitted "tight" using the Zoom to Fill checkbox. In the latter case, LR applies an additional print-only crop which forces the image that is seen, to adopt the shape of the cell. So the aspect ratio of the Develop crop, does not need to have been exact for this precise output.
This print-only crop will only remove further bits of the photo, not put any back - unlike the Develop crop. But you can slide the image around for the best composition, in terms of what it trims off.
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[ edit add: The Develop crop might be made specific for a particular print shape, but does not have to be, with the above technique. Maybe one actively wants to retain the camera-original aspect, with other kinds of output in mind. In any case, page margins often mean that the actual printed area is not quite exactly the same shape as the notional page anyway - a "10x8" printed with a half-inch margin on three sides and a three-quarter inch margin on the bottom, would print 9" x 6 3/4" (which is a different shape than 10x8). And all that would need to have been worked out each time, re-cropping the main composition for each different output size, margin width, etc then re-cropping it back again to 3:2 (or whatever) for your web upload. That can be managed through presets, virtual copies, snapshots - but sounds like a lot of extra work to me. My own images are cropped for general purposes, but each one remembers its last print settings also - which places it onto a page in the needed manner.]

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I shoot the Nikon D3, RAW (.NEF) and convert through ACR. Through ACR, the DPI is set to 300 DPI; the DPI caries over to Photoshop.
I crop in Photoshop using the crop tool (not marquee). To maintain 2:3 or 3:2 aspect ratios, the crop tool requires the width and height in inches or pixels. If specifying resolution, the document size will crop to that DPI, if not; the DPI is derived from pixel dimensions.
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Setting a dimensioned ratio (e.g., 2 in by 3 in for Width and Height) in the Crop tool without filling in a Resolution value yields a crop with the desired aspect ratio, and without any resampling.
There is no way to specify a ratio with the crop tool, specifically, as the OP has requested, though in a future version perhaps specifying simple numbers there without any units might be a way Adobe could facilitate this. It would be a nice addition and with little downside.
I guess what I don't understand, though, is why the OP cares about the "high" resulting dpi value? It's just a number.
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Using Windows and Lightroom 5.5, I'm no longer able to synchronize a crop aspect
ratio of 2:3 across a series of images. All the other settings I use are synchronized,
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I've tried setting it Quick Develop and in Develop. It's worked before, but not now.

an interesting, I think I found the answer on my own
if you hit 'r' for crop, 'a' to toggle aspect ratio lock, then ENTER to apply the crop LR will not remember the apect-ratio lock setting.
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