Scatterbrained
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.......... Say you shoot with a 3:2 ratio and during post-process you decide to crop for composition. Are you setting your crop ratio to 3:2 as well and do you ALWAYS use this same setting? I read a bunch of posts on here regarding print sizes, etc. but I was just curious if I should be cropping for one ratio every time..............................
Thanks
If you have an image that might sell at different aspect ratios (say a 5x7 and an 8x10), don't crop it during post. Crop to the aspect ratios needed when they are needed; i.e., when someone says "can I get this in 5x7?" you can create a virtual copy in Lr and crop it to 5x7. Meanwhile you can have one VC cropped at 8x10 for display. This way if you need to print in a different aspect ratio you're not stuck cropping into an image that was already cropped before the post work was complete. Basically, crop last.
Of course if you're selling something like still lifes or landscapes then by all means crop whenever you want to whatever aspect ratio you feel best suits the image.