Easy Lightroom2 Question - Locking Aspect Ratio

[DeannaD]

Please tell me how to lock the aspect ratio for cropping through a collection. I have a couple hundred photos to go through and even though I hit the lock symbol on the cropping panel (or "A" for shortcut) when I right arrow to the next picture it goes back to Original and the lock unlocks.

It's driving me insane! thx.

[RIDDLER STUDIOS]

Select the images in the shoot (CTRL+A); press CTRL+Sync to change the Sync button to AUTOSYNC, then apply your preferred Aspect Ratio to the selected images. Click on CTRL+AUTOSYNC to deactivate the Autosync function.

Now scroll to each individual photo and reposition the crop outline to the way you want.

Another tip; if you turn on the CAPS LOCK button, once you accept the crop for an image by pressing the ENTER key, Lightroom will automatically scroll to the next image.

[DeannaD]

Just what I needed. Thank you SO much!

[SpeedRacerSlots]

Found this about aspect ratios if you have to crop to 5x7, 8x01, etc.
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/li...ect_ratio.html

Slick

[venchka]

Now if I could just get Lightroom to understand square originals. Lightroom always makes horizontals (landscape for the geek Squad) from my square photos. I want verticals (portrait for the G.S.) about haf the time.