light room and crops

during pp, what is everyond don't for a ratio on their crop?

the reason i ask is the wife recenty asked me to print a bunch of pix i had worked on, but i had done some funky crops, some were even square and thus they did not resize/crop well to 4 x 6 prints? I was trying to avoid doing all the pp work again.


thoughts/ recommendations?

Print them as you cropped them, as in if you did a square crop, then print it square, and trim off the borders of the photo paper.

If you have exported them as JPEG's you and you are not printing them yourself you will probably want to take the odd square image and put it on a 4x6 canvas. You will get white borders one two sides but these can be cut off as mentioned. If you don't you risk the printer will make the image fill a 4x6 and a crop will occur. Dennis

If you are refering to Photoshop Lightroom you can "undo" your crops if you didn't export your files and save over the originals. Lightroom does non-destructive edits so you can "undo" anything. In lightroom select the image and go to the Develope Module. Click the Crop tool and Click Clear in the bottom right hand side of the tool bar. You should now be back to your original uncropped image. Now you can re-crop to whatever size you need. One way to have multiple crops is to use Snapshots or Virtual Copies. This thread is long but very good and detailed about waht I just refered to:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=314200

Thanks for the responses,
i have been playing iwth lr and the dfferent crop ratios and it appears the 4 x 6 is the most "picture". Can do all my editing, then crop to 4 x 6 and then print an 8 x 10 from that 4 x 6 without an issue?

Well, I think you would have an issue if you tried to print an 8x10 from a photo cropped to 4x6. Something would have to be sacrificed on the print since the 4x6 has a 1.5 ratio and the 8x10 has a 1.25 ratio so the 4x6 is longer. You are going to loose about two inches in length because a print that size with the same aspect ratio would be an 8x12. Your 8x10 would loose those 2 inches.