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USING PHOTOSHOP LIGHTROOM 2
Developing photos
2
Choose an aspect ratio and make sure the padlock is closed. The aspect ratio can be for the current orientation or
the desired orientation; it doesn’t matter.
3
Drag a corner of the crop rectangle toward the center of the photo, and then toward the orientation you want: up
or down for vertical, left or right for horizontal. The crop snaps to the opposite orientation.
Straighten a photo
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Select the Crop Overlay tool
in the tool strip, and do one of the following:
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Rotate the photo using the Straighten slider.
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Rotate the photo by moving the pointer outside a corner crop handle to display the Rotate icon
, and then drag
to rotate the image.
•
Select the Straighten tool
, and then drag in the photo along a line that you want to be horizontal or vertical.
Holding down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) with the Straighten tool selected displays a grid that helps you
straighten the photo.
Rotate or flip a photo in the Develop module
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To rotate a photo in 90-degree increments, choose Photo
> Rotate Left or Rotate Right. To rotate a photo to less
than 90 degrees, see “
Straighten a photo
” on page 113. The photo rotates in a clockwise or counterclockwise
direction around its center point.
•
To flip a photo horizontally from front to back so that you’re looking at a mirror image, choose Photo
> Flip
Horizontal. Objects that appeared on the left side appear on the right side, and vice versa. Text in the photo will
show in reversed mirror image.
•
To flip a photo vertically from front to back so that you’re looking at a mirror image upside down, choose Photo
>
Flip Vertical.
Retouching and correcting photos
Heal spots and blemishes
The Spot Removal tool lets you repair a selected area of a photo with a sample from another area. When removing
spots, you use two connected circles: the spot circle indicates which area to change, and the sample circle determines
which area of the photo is used to clone or heal the spot.
1
Select the Spot Removal tool
in the tool strip.
2
Click one of the following in the tool drawer:
Clone
Applies the sampled area of the photo to the selected area.
Heal
Matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled area to the selected area.
3
(Optional) In the Spot Removal tool drawer, drag the Size slider to increase or decrease the size of the area that the
Spot Removal tool affects. Drag the Opacity slider to the left to add some transparency to the selected area.
4
Move the Spot Removal tool into the photo and click the part of the photo you want to retouch.
Lightroom clones a nearby sample area to the spot that you clicked. An arrow points from the sample circle to the spot
circle, which indicates the selected area that is being cloned or healed.
Updated 03 September 2009
