Lightroom - Measuring and Ruler Tool

MDalby

Just got done with senior portrait season... My first real season. I had about 30 this year.

My workflow wasn't the best.

1- I currently use Lightroom first for my cataloging and exposure settings, sharpening, noise reduction etc. Export to a TIF
2- I then use Portrait Professional for skin, eyes, teeth adjustments
3- Then I use PS to measure the distance between the bridge of the nose and the chin which according to the yearbook requirements needs to be 1/2 inch. I use PS to crop and save as a JPG.

I wish I had a measure/ruler tool in Lightroom to measure from the bridge of the nose to the chin so I can do my cropping directly from Lightroom in the first step.

Is there a tool that I don't know about? How should I change my workflow?

Thanks in advance.

MD

basflt

in LR go to print section , that one has the rulers

adbsgicom

You aren't exporting to TIF and then opening in PS are you? You can set up your external editor defaults to have the TIFF (or PSD) generated and opened into PS and then when you save, the modified TIFF (or PSD) is in the LR catalog. Just reacting to how you wrote your first step... LR, until you get to the print module is very intentionally final resolution agnostic....

Sam

My first thought reading your post was..............it seems to me your doing a ton of work for a 1" or so image that will never be seen at that size.

Sam

MDalby

Thanks guys for the help.