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to make a crop using a 5:4 ratio set width=5 height=4, or width=1280 height=1024. Make a crop, use "Width" and "Height" values to define the ratio, e.g.You can make a custom crop ratio as of RawTherapee 5.1. The PPI value (pixels per inch) does not change any physical property of the image, it only serves to help you see what physical size the current crop would print at using that PPI value. By default, as of version 4.2.214, RawTherapee automatically detects and uses the same crop orientation as the orientation of your image - the "As Image" option. Use Guide Type to select popular guides to help you in composition while cropping, and a horizontal (landscape) or vertical (portrait) orientation. To see only the cropped area, use the "Fit cropped area to screen" keyboard shortcut. To clear the crop, activate crop-placing mode again (via the keyboard shortcut or either of the buttons mentioned above), and click anywhere in the preview without dragging. Resize a crop by placing the mouse on one of the sides or corners. Use the Shift key to move (pan) the crop over the image. You can define the color and transparency of this mask in " Preferences > General > Crop mask color/transparency".Īctivate crop-placing mode by clicking the "Select Crop" button in the tool panel, the button in the Editor's top toolbar, or the appropriate keyboard shortcut, then create the crop by clicking and dragging over the preview with your mouse. When you set the background color of the preview to anything other than "theme-based" then the cropped-off area will be completely hidden from the preview, but if you set it to "theme-based" then by default the cropped-off area will be covered by a dark but semi-transparent mask. The cropped-off area will of course not appear in the saved image. You can still see the cropped-off area in the preview if you zoom out and set the background color of the preview to "theme-based". Cropping in RawTherapee does not discard the cropped-off area, it just hides it by drawing a crop frame and zooming in to fit the frame to the available screen space.