This week we’re going to take a look at the Painter tool. The Painter tool is actually part of Lightroom 1.1 and it was originally the Keyword Stamper tool in Lightroom 1.0. It was pretty cool then, but in 1.1 you can now “spray” on things other than keywords like Metadata, Develop Presets, and any type of labels or ratings. It’s actually very clever in the way it works and once you start spraying it’s kind of hard to stop.
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Hey everyone, it’s Photoshop World week so if you’re going make sure you stop by and say Hi. Anyway, I thought it would be a great time for another Q&A:
QuestionWhen locking an image to a crop aspect ratio, Lightroom forces the ratio to match the image layout, so vertical will be 8X10 and horizontal will be 10X8. There are times when I want a vertical crop in a horizontal photo, but still want the aspect constraint. Is there a way to get Lightroom to figure this out?
- Justin
AnswerAbsolutely. It’s definitely not immediately apparent. Here’s what to do. Start cropping your image like normal. Then, as you’re clicking and cropping, move your cursor outside the cropping rectangle like you would rotate the image and swing it around. As you do this you’ll see the photo switch from it’s current orientation to the opposite.
- Matt K
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