Lightroom editing...

Okay, this may be silly of me but Im going to say it anyway!

In CS2, when you edit an image, and lets use rotating as an example; you see the image gets rotated, and the you crop it... and it's cropped. Its there on the screen as the cropped image.

In Lightroom, you straighten an image, then it auto-crops, and you can see the parts which are being cropped out. But it stays like that if you move to another image and then go back to it. Or if you go back to it a week later. What I mean is the crop isnt actually applied to the image, is it?

So, all the edits you do to a picture in Lightroom are all 'finalized' when the image is exported. Is this correct?

I guess Im just used to PhotoShop is all.

I think you have it right. No actual edit is applied until the photo is exported and even then the original is untouched.
I think that's right

Just a note that modifying a RAW file in all programs is non-destructive - it doesn't alter the image, it just stores information about your changes, often in a separate file or database.

Once you've cropped / rotated to your satisfaction either hit the 'enter' button, click the 'Done' button bottom right of the viewport or click the 'whole image' button bottom left and the view changes to the cropped version, which is also what will show in the grid and filmstrip views.

tim wrote in post #3138683
Just a note that modifying a RAW file in all programs is non-destructive - it doesn't alter the image, it just stores information about your changes, often in a separate file or database.

That's what I thought. Cheers.

The enter button, or enter key on the keyboard? I cant see an enter or OK button on LR. Whats the Viewport? And is 'whole image' written there, or is it an icon? Thanks.

When you have cropped/straightened your shot hit the enter key on the keyboard.

Fany Ooo!!

thats the beauty of RAW my friend

I was using JPEG, my friend

I have a question relating to cropping in Lightroom. I have cropped my images to 7 x 5 using the crop overlay, pressed close to view the new cropped image, exported the image to Photoshop as a JPEG (leaving the Image Sizing blank). However when I open the image in Photoshop, the sizing is showing as 17.473 x 12.48 inches) I don't understand !!!! BTW I am using version 2.7

The document size in PS doesn't mean anything, it is just a default size determined by whatever ppi you happened to have set in the LR export dialog and is easily changed. For instance, 3000 x 4500 pixels at 300 pixels per inch is 10 x 15 inches, but at 200 ppi it is 15 x 22.5 in. The only thing that is real and meaningful is the pixel dimensions. When it comes time to print the image then the real ppi will be determined by the pixels divided by the paper size, whatever it may be.

stoat wrote in post #11030147
17.473 x 12.48 inches

That is 7x5 ratio.

if you want to keep the lightroom edits as part of the raw files you back up, are the LR edits also saved, or does LR save the edits (like ACR) as a separate file?
so...would I need to back up the CR2 files only, or some additional files?

Hangerhead wrote in post #11030282
if you want to keep the lightroom edits as part of the raw files you back up, are the LR edits also saved, or does LR save the edits (like ACR) as a separate file?
so...would I need to back up the CR2 files only, or some additional files?

LR keeps everything in a separate file - edits, keywords and other tags, even photo file locations. One huge database file, the catalog. It's extension is *.lrcat. That is the default setup, but you also have the option of writing the info to ACR-style individual xmp files. Either way it does not alter the CR2 files in any way, so yes, you do need to backup the catalog regularly and the xmps if you elect to use them.

If you export the image as a tiff, psd or jpeg from Lightroom your edits are saved to the file. If you open the file to Edit in Photoshop the edits are retained in the file. All this should be self-evident!!