The Landscape Photography Book

Cropping and Straightening

This is the single most-used tool in all of Photoshop and Lightroom, and it’s super-easy to use. I prefer to use the Crop tool in Lightroom or Camera Raw because if you change your mind later, no sweat, you can always undo it, whereas Photoshop’s is more permanent. Oddly enough, the tool works a little differently between Lightroom and Camera Raw (and it’s actually called the Crop Overlay tool in Lightroom). We’ll start with Lightroom, where all you do is click on the Crop Overlay tool (in the toolbar right below the histogram in the right side Panels area) and it puts a cropping border around your image. By default, ...