 Today I'm going to show you how to rotate your crop tool inside a Lightroom. What's up Nerds? Welcome back to another tutorial. I'm really excited to bring you today's tip because this is a question that I get asked a lot of times. And there's a couple of ways that you can do it. And basically it's how do you rotate your crop tool inside of Lightroom. And believe it or not, this is something that I learned some time ago but wished that it was something that I had learned sooner. And so I'm going to show you how to do it just in case you didn't know that this existed. So let's jump into Lightroom and show you what I'm talking about. So here I've got an image and what I'm going to do is first head on up to the crop tool. And I'm going to choose a ratio that's a little bit more dramatic just because I think it's going to be easier for us to see what is happening here. So I'm going to go underneath the original and I'm going to choose the 9 by 16 ratio. When you go in here to crop your photo, there are times in this example my crop is going the long way, it's going this way. But there are times when you want your crop to go the tall way like this. And what a lot of people don't know is that you can actually rotate this crop tool. If you put your cursor right here at any of the corners you'll notice that your cursor will turn to a diagonal 45 degree angle. And when you get that 45 degree angle, if you literally just pull straight across it will rotate the crop tool. So I'm going to show you, if I just keep pulling like directly across you'll notice how just like that it'll snap and it'll go long ways to this way. That's one way to do it. But this is not user friendly and it's not very intuitive for a lot of people. In fact, I have sat with people on a one-on-one mentoring session and watched them try to do this. And it's almost impossible for them to figure out. So the easiest way to do this is to hit the letter X on your keyboard. Just hitting the letter X, nothing else will rotate this crop tool. So you can have it either horizontal or vertical. This is going to save a lot of you, a lot of time. So hopefully you found this useful today and you can stop banging your head against your keyboard. You're welcome. Have a great day everybody.