How to Crop a Landscape Picture Into a Portrait Picture in Lightroom
Landscape and portrait photos are distinguished by their height to width ratios. A longer width makes landscape shots perfect for capturing multiple subjects or open environments, while the larger height of portraits makes the technique great for photographing a single subject. Most cameras take shots in landscape mode. You could rotate your camera 90 degrees to capture a portrait shot. But if you have existing landscape images that you'd like to crop into a portrait, you can use Adobe's Lightroom software to handle your images' post-processing.
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Instructions
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Launch Adobe Lightroom. Click on the program's "File" heading. Select the "Import Photos from Disk" option from the context menu that appears beneath the heading. Locate the landscape image you wish to work with, using the file explorer window that appears.
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Select the "Go to Develop" option from Lightroom's "View" heading. Click on the "Crop Overlay Tool" button in the Developer menu's toolbar, and then click on the lock icon beside the tool. Click on the "Enter Custom" option in the context menu that pops up.
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Type your portrait dimension in the the height and width fields inside of the "Enter Custom Aspect Ratio" menu box. Type the height into the field on the left, and type the width of your portrait crop into the field on the right. "3x2" and "4x3" are common aspect ratios for portraits.
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Click "OK" to close the Enter Custom Aspect Ratio menu and apply your crop to your image. Select the "Export " option from Lightroom's "File" heading to save your edited image.
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