Use Crop, Rotate, and Geometry tool in Lightroom

Son güncelleme: 9 Kas 2026

Learn how to transform your photos with Crop, Rotate, and Geometry tool in Lightroom.

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Resize photos using Crop tool in Lightroom

Select the Crop and Expand    icon. 

To resize your photos, do any of the following: 

  • Drag the Crop overlay handles to adjust the Crop.
  • Select the desired aspect ratio in the Aspect menu. Using the Rotate Aspect Ratio button, rotate the Crop overlay 90 degrees, and unlock the Constrain Aspect Ratio button to adjust the aspect ratio freely.
  • Hold the spacebar to pan and zoom while cropping a photo. 
Lightroom desktop displaying a tilted photo with the Crop controls highlighted, including Aspect, Straighten, Crop Overlay, Rotate, and Flip options.
Crop, straighten, rotate, or flip a photo using the Crop controls.

Use the Straighten slider to adjust the overall image alignment. Use the Crop Overlay dropdown menu to select from helpful compositional guides.

Rotate and Flip photos in Lightroom

The Rotate & Flip tools in Lightroom help you change the orientation of your photos. Select:

  • Rotate icons to rotate your photos left or right by 90 degrees. 
  •   to vertically flip your photo
  •   to horizontally mirror the photo
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Edit perspective using the Geometry tool in Lightroom

The tools in the Geometry panel are useful for correcting distortion and straightening lines in an image.

In the Geometry   panel, do any of the following:

  • Select automatic or any manual guided perspective corrections from the Upright dropdown menu.
  • Select the Auto Upright   icon to automatically correct a photo's perspective or select the Guided Upright    icon to make perspective corrections manually by drawing guides directly on the photo.

In the Geometry panel, use the following sliders to:

  • Distortion: Adjust the distortions often caused while capturing the photo
  • Projection: Fix stretching near the edges and corners of wide-angle photos, especially in group photos and selfies.
  • Vertical: Adjust the vertical perspective, such as straightening or tilting a vertical line.
  • Horizontal: Adjust the horizontal lines.
  • Rotate: Rotate the photo clockwise or anticlockwise.
  • Aspect: Define the aspect ratio of the entire image.
  • Scale: Zoom in or out of the image without affecting the aspect ratio.
  • X Offset: Move the photo right or left.
  • Y Offset: Move the image up or down.
Lightroom desktop shows two riders herding cattle, with a grid and transparent edges over the photo and the Auto Projection controls highlighted in the Geometry panel.
Use the Geometry panel to correct perspective distortion.

Check the Constrain Crop checkbox to restrict the Crop Overlay to the visible image area.

Once you have corrected the distortion in the photo, you can fill in the empty area using Generative Expand.

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