Crop and Resize your Images in Narrative
You'll find the crop panel on the right in the vertical toolbar. You can also use the keyboard shortcut C to quickly open or close the crop panel. From here you can crop, resize or level your images.
Hit Done or close the panel with C to apply your crop. Hit Reset to remove the crop and revert back to your image's originally shot aspect ratio.
As with your ratings, the crop applied to each image will be stored in the associated XMP file in your source folder. When you ship those images to Lightroom or Capture One, the crop settings will be applied, you'll be able to see the crop and export the image with its crop settings as a JPG.
Batch Apply Crop
If you need to apply the same crop across multiple images at once, you can do this using Batch Apply Crop. This is especially useful for sessions like corporate headshots, school formals, bridal parties, and group shots where consistent cropping across dozens or hundreds of images is essential.
How to use Batch Apply Crop
Set your crop on the current image using the crop panel
Click Batch Apply in the crop panel
Choose the scope you'd like to apply the crop to:
Current Selection — applies to all images you have selected
Current Scene — applies to all images in the current scene
All Photos — applies to every image in the project
Click Apply to confirm
When applying a crop across different orientations, Narrative handles the flip automatically; for example, a 9:16 crop applied to a landscape image will become 16:9.
Reverting a batch crop
To revert a single image, click Reset in the crop panel. To revert a batch, reset one image first, then use Batch Apply and apply the reset crop across your selection or scene.