CROPPING PHOTOS?????

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How can one crop a photo on Lightroom without reducing the size of the photo?

When I load photos onto Lightroom they are at 5 or 6 MB. I then do some cropping to get in closer and the photo ends up as 568kb.


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Thats what cropping does ..reduces the size of the Pics resolution


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I’m not sure about Lightroom, but in Photoshop you can set the resolution after cropping and it will increase the image size. I normally set mine to 300 which is the resolution that printers work with.


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steamtrainfan wrote: Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:53 pm How can one crop a photo on Lightroom without reducing the size of the photo?

When I load photos onto Lightroom they are at 5 or 6 MB. I then do some cropping to get in closer and the photo ends up as 568kb.
when you export the photo to save the photo there is a setting saying image size. Here you can set the dpi and pix of the photo to the size you want or as it was before you cropped


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Yes Pete always save on the max or if you are using the pic to post online then move the size/quality slider to the left


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Thanks very much guys. \O


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