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03/14/2011 04:38:32 PM · #1 |
In Lightroom 3, if I take an image and crop it severely, I end up with an image area that is considerably smaller than the original. This makes sense since I have just chopped out ~75% of the image.
However, how do I take that very small cropped portion and enlarge it to fill a larger image area? In essence, how do I zoom that image so that it is bigger?
Can this only be done when I export the file to JPEG and set the image dimension size to what I want it to be? Is there no way to do this pre-export?
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03/14/2011 05:25:01 PM · #2 |
Youcan set you output file to the size you want at the export menu. In inches, centimeters or pixels.
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03/14/2011 05:33:20 PM · #3 |
| If I understand what you are asking you want to resize the image after crop to fill a larger canvas. If so then exporting is the only way that I know of but I would export as a 16 bit TIFF instead of jpg to keep the quality up when you work on it again. You can also fool around in the Print module with various sizes to see what it looks like but it would still need to be resampled to actually print. |
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03/14/2011 06:10:15 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by jbsmithana:
If I understand what you are asking you want to resize the image after crop to fill a larger canvas. If so then exporting is the only way that I know of but I would export as a 16 bit TIFF instead of jpg to keep the quality up when you work on it again. |
Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Suspected exporting was the only way. |
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03/14/2011 07:14:45 PM · #5 |
Within lightroom are you seeing the area you have cropped out during further editing? If so you just need to close the crop and straighten dialoge box and the image should resize to fill the window. If you cant zoom in and out then there is something off in your settings.
If you are wondering about upscaling the image to increase the file size then exporting to PS is the way. |
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