Whats a great cropping size?

I used to really play around with a lot of custom cropping sizes and have noticed its very poorly suited for printing. To improve my presentaion skills I would like to standarize my sizing.

I am now trying to do a standarized 5x7 crop in LR and I resize the pictures to 1280 one side which seems to result in a 1280x914 pixel sized image. I am fairly happy with the sizing on a web page but I am wondering if should use a 8.5x11 or if 5x7 is a good crop size.. I supose I can still use a 5x7 crop and also size to the next biggere size like 1600 by X

I have also played around with borders but I think it will prove to be too much of a hassle if I want to do any printing down the line.

How exactly are you presenting your images? On a monitor, you can crop to a specific resolution which you determine, the same thing with, say, an HDTV, and the same thing with a specific print -- a 5x7 print will call for a 5x7 crop, a 4x6 print does not need a crop, and an 8x10 print needs more of a crop. So, your use will determine what crop you need.

It's Lightroom. You crop when and if a specific need arises. No need to do so before. And after that cropped version has been exported you can undo the crop or just leave it and change it next time. Same thing with borders, export an "artistically" cropped version with a border for the web and a month later a paper sized version without the border for printing. But if you really feel you have to prepare ahead of time, that's what Virtual Copies are for.

True, the problem is that at this stage I don't keep the raw photos. I just export and ditch the rest of the images.

When I finally get back ot the states I'll set up a 5 - 10TB external storage and save all the raw photos.

I am displaying them on SmugMug and also SharePoint here at Work so its all web based.

O.k., but you can manage jpgs the same way. Save and import into LR a full sized high quality jpg and then crop and export smaller jpgs as they are needed and discard them after they have been uploaded.

Something to consider...

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