Lightroom Question: Is there a way to have proportional rotated crops?

Quite often I find that I want to take an image that was shot in one orientation and flip the orientation of the crop, obviously leaving the image as it should be. The crop shold be rotated proportionally so, for instance, the smaller dimension of the landscape shot becomes the longer dimension for the new portrait orienation. The crop rotates and the image is not resized, as my examples shows.

The first shot is the original and rather than do a crop in the same orientation I want to flip the orientaion of the crop (indicated by the red line) and change the photo to a portrait orientation shot, maintaining size and proportion, as shown in the second image.

I can't find a way to do this in Lightroom. Anyone know if this can be done and what the trick is ? or do I have to keep going to Photoshop for something this simple?

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You can indeed....

Lock the aspect ratio on Original

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Absolutely wonderful! Thank you Victoria.

I just drag the corners around until the perspective changes.

I also subscribe to the KISS principal, just drag the corners.

Hi guys,

Yes, I just didn't realize that if you dragged the corners far enough it would change orientation. I'm not trying to complicate things. Just didn't know how to do it.

Victoria Bampton wrote in post #3480736
You can indeed....

Lock the aspect ratio on Original

Drag the corner of the crop border until it flips the other way around

I knew that. It annoyed me at first but when I got the hang of what it was doing I thought 'actually that's not a bad idea at all'.

Victoria Bampton wrote in post #3480736
but if you want it to upsample to match the original dimensions, put the longest-edge original dimension in the boxes.

BUT I didn't know that -- great stuff Victoria, thank you!

im useing LR3 beta i did what victoria said but it only rotates 45 degrees both side (left right). what am i doing wrong?

jimmywires wrote in post #9794227
im useing LR3 beta i did what victoria said but it only rotates 45 degrees both side (left right). what am i doing wrong?

You don't want to rotate the image, you just want to take the corner of the crop box and Pull" it until the box's orientation flips.

smokes... I GOT IT thank you so much

No problem!