Crop shield - settings you use

Research for a new image editing program.

Meant to make this thread a poll.

Defaults:
Adobe Photoshop: 75%
GIMP: 50%
Picasa: 38%

(Crop shield is the darkened area around the crop selection / crop area)

Whatever the default in Lightroom is. As long as I can see both what I'm cropping out and what I'm left with, it doesn't really matter to me.

I use pieces of cardboard help up to my monitor.

tim wrote in post #12899722
I use pieces of cardboard help up to my monitor.

:p Reminds me of all those long evenings with the enlarger.

One of the most important polls we have ever had.

tim wrote in post #12899722
I use pieces of cardboard help up to my monitor.

Ah. But what amount of light is hitting the front, and what color are they?

René Damkot wrote in post #12904636
Ah. But what amount of light is hitting the front, and what color are they?

All depends if the monitor is calibrated or not!

TheBurningCrown wrote in post #12897181
Whatever the default in Lightroom is. As long as I can see both what I'm cropping out and what I'm left with, it doesn't really matter to me.

+1

I would respond to the poll, but I don't know what LR3's default is. Maybe 30%? I dunno.

Whatever the default is in CS5 & Lightroom (Not sure if you can change it in LR)

Just wondering why you made this poll - Bored?

500%, dude, no compromise!

tonylong wrote in post #12908520
500%, dude, no compromise!

Is that where you take a big pair of shears and trim away the sides of your monitor?

TheBurningCrown wrote in post #12897181
Whatever the default in Lightroom is. As long as I can see both what I'm cropping out and what I'm left with, it doesn't really matter to me.

nathancarter wrote in post #12904901
I would respond to the poll, but I don't know what LR3's default is. Maybe 30%? I dunno.

NinetyEight wrote in post #12905140
Whatever the default is in CS5 & Lightroom (Not sure if you can change it in LR)

Thank you, all three. I don't have LR available (GNU/Linux), but measured GIMP and Picasa's by making a crop selection on a white image, taking a screenshot, and eyedropping it in GIMP. This shows percentage of black. Would be great if someone could do this in LR. I'll edit the first post to reflect it

Other defaults would also be welcome

NinetyEight wrote in post #12905140
Just wondering why you made this poll - Bored?

Research. Designing an image editing program.

*bump*

I was.. sort of hoping for more than 5 answers in the poll

Maybe no one is voting because no one cares... it's user preference... it doesn't change the outcome nor the processing workflow... so why does it matter??

nrowensby wrote in post #13009938
Maybe no one is voting because no one cares... it's user preference

This seems like a contradiction. Care to explain?

As posted; research for an image editing program

Jonta wrote in post #13018782
This seems like a contradiction. Care to explain?

I mean exactly what I said... No one cares what other people use. I'm not going to base my choice of something like this on a poll... I'm going to base it on whatever I feel works best for me.

Your first post says nothing about this being research for a new image editing software option... it says, "Crop shield - settings you use" even in the linked thread's OP you just explain what "Crop Shield" is and asks what settings people use.

Maybe if you put that you are doing research to develop new software (in the OP, not reply #11) people would be more likely to vote... Otherwise, as I said before, no one cares what other people are using for a setting like this.