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I have a lot of circular fisheye images that need to have all the black background cutout. I want to be left with only the circle image. Here is a sample of an M240 image that needs to be cropped into a circle.

 

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I need to make circle crops as easy as it is to do rectangular / square crops in LR. I hope they add it to upcoming versions of LR. From my limited research there is not an easy way to do it with the current photo software on the market.

 

I need simple! I can use LR pretty good, doing all the same things I did in the wet darkroom. But I don't not use Photoshop or any other complex computer methods. I tried Gimp and Softonic Splashup. I don't understand how they work. Useless for me. Why do they make everything so fudging complex.

 

Any other suggestions out there using LR style cropping tools and not a host of bullshit computer commands?

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Well it's so easy in Photoshop as the rectangular crop icon also can crop as an ellipse. So you drag a horizontal guide down to the top of your circle, drag vertical rule to left of circle, set cross at intersection of these guides and drag down and to the right until your circle is covered. Crop!

Bullshit computer commands??

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But I don't not use Photoshop or any other complex computer methods.

 

There is nothing skilful or complex about doing a circular crop in Photoshop. Whoever convinced you that Photoshop was complex has now created a complicated problem for you.

 

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Mac users have a simple answer for this without necessitating purchase of Photoshop. Athough Apple discussion threads suggest otherwise, you can do an oval/circular crop in Preview. Open your jpeg in Preview, then Menu–Tools– uncheck Rectangular Selection. Next click on the icon next to the long slot with magnifier glass: looks like a pen on the diagonal of a rectangle. This opens up a palette of tools: under the same icon you'll see a dotted blue rectangle. But click mouse on dotted circle to the right of it (and it will show blue) then draw crop – holding down shift key for a perfect circle. You can move the selection (=rotating dotted crop outline) or resize via one of the corner points.

Scroll down in Tools for Crop and you'll see Preview option to Cancel/Convert to a PNG. Convert and your cropped oval/circle will appear. Under File/Export you have the option to reconvert to jpeg or tiff etc. The desktop image can then be imported into LR, and if necessary further adjusted in LR/Develop, for printing.

 

Sounds complicated but it's not!

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Couldn't fathom how to do this in LR5. Anyone kind enough to 'walk me through' the steps?

 

I think Jaapv is talking about Photoshop as LR doesn't have layers. I don't think there is a circular crop option in LR, but you can use the radial filter, make a circular selection, set feather to 0 and reduce exposure all the way and get something that might approximate what you want. This was done using the radial filter this way.

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I think Jaapv is talking about Photoshop as LR doesn't have layers. I don't think there is a circular crop option in LR, but you can use the radial filter, make a circular selection, set feather to 0 and reduce exposure all the way and get something that might approximate what you want. This was done using the radial filter this way.

 

Striking image and thanks for your reply. I actually did get this far with LR but only as an experiment, already having CS3. Let's hope the OP gets his answers...

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