rotate crop feature?

[PaulW]

Finally, some good news. I'm looking forward to it.

[vAfotoriporter]

As I understand it the crops in PM 5 will show up in Lightroom too!!!

That worked before but it has been disabled for some reason - I guess compatibility. Let's hope it stays this time.

[Kirk Baker]

As I understand it the crops in PM 5 will show up in Lightroom too!!!

That worked before but it has been disabled for some reason - I guess compatibility. Let's hope it stays this time.

It was removed because PM didn't handle rotated crops.  It would make them unrotated and would cause users to have to re-crop their images in Adobe's software.

PM 5 can handle rotated crops perfectly well.

-Kirk

[jahuehn]

I realize it's probably way too late in the product cycle to consider this but in addition to the arbitrary rotation (which will be FANTASTIC and save me a trip into Photoshop) I'd really like to have the cropped dimensions displayed real time as I'm drawing the crop. I'm frequently limited by a specified minimum image size so it would be very nice to see the dimensions as I'm cropping so I can quickly determine how deep I can crop into an image.

[vAfotoriporter]

I realize it's probably way too late in the product cycle to consider this but in addition to the arbitrary rotation (which will be FANTASTIC and save me a trip into Photoshop) I'd really like to have the cropped dimensions displayed real time as I'm drawing the crop. I'm frequently limited by a specified minimum image size so it would be very nice to see the dimensions as I'm cropping so I can quickly determine how deep I can crop into an image.

I too would vote for this!
,-))

[FVlcek]

Yes, live preview of cropped pixel size would be nice. Also, please consider making the dialog boxes for (exact) crop ratio so that numbers can be entered directly, instead of clicking the little up and down arrows. Especially when I need exact ratio for a magazine cover it gets really tedious clicking 56 times the up arrow...

Consider also, if possible, that the crop could be started by mouse cursor outside the image area (with it automatically being constrained to just image area), so one can do really quick from one corner crops. The way it is now, that crop by mouse dragging must be started inside image, it's a bit tedious to position the cursor exactly in the corner or notice if one is losing few pixels there or not.

Thank you for consideration, Frantisek

[Kirk Baker]

Frantisek,

Yes, live preview of cropped pixel size would be nice. Also, please consider making the dialog boxes for (exact) crop ratio so that numbers can be entered directly, instead of clicking the little up and down arrows. Especially when I need exact ratio for a magazine cover it gets really tedious clicking 56 times the up arrow...

The spinner buttons are gone.  You can type in a whole or decimal value.

Consider also, if possible, that the crop could be started by mouse cursor outside the image area (with it automatically being constrained to just image area), so one can do really quick from one corner crops. The way it is now, that crop by mouse dragging must be started inside image, it's a bit tedious to position the cursor exactly in the corner or notice if one is losing few pixels there or not.

We won't have time to add any other features to the crop before the initial 5.0 release.  Too many other things to do right now.

-Kirk

[FVlcek]

Frantisek,
The spinner buttons are gone.  You can type in a whole or decimal value.
We won't have time to add any other features to the crop before the initial 5.0 release.  Too many other things to do right now.
-Kirk

Great! Thank you. And I can understand that, after all we want the 5.0 released as much as you ;-)
Frantisek