Lightroom 3 Beta-Image Rotate and Crop Tool

Good Morning Adobe,
First of all let me say Lightroom 3 is fantastic! I do have a couple of suggestions that might make the image editing more efficient. I find that I use the image rotate and crop tools frequently and think that possibly locating these 2 features below the image in the tool bar with the loupe view/zoom fit/before and after will allow the user to edit the images more efficiantly.
I believe that this is an incredible program and can't wait to see the finished product!
I will offer more suggestions as they evolve.
Thank you Adobe! You are the BEST!
D.A.

Thank you...I discovered this answer online from another post last night and tried it. (Since I didn't re-size the thumbnails, I wasn't aware that you could do this.) After re-starting Lightroom and my computer, the crop issue corrected itself. Thank you very much for your response. It worked!

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"Wiebe@CARYA" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
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[Due to a forum error during moderator editing, Harm's reply was lost. Here is the text of his reply, edited for content.]
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