If I am rotating a photo for aesthetic reasons, as oppose to precise alignment of horizon / verticals, then the interactive aspect that the crop tool provides holds a distinct advantage over the horizon tool In this one use case I do miss having rotation handles in the crop tool.
If the horizon tool is being used to align vertical and horizontal lines then this is fine, but there is another scenario that I often encounter outside of the “normal use case”, and that is “rotating a photo for aesthetic reasons”. Home Develop Module How to Use Lightroom Classic’s Crop Overlays to Help with Composition By David Coleman Last Updated: MaFiled Under: Develop Module Topics: Lightroom Classic I MAY get commissions for purchases made through links in this post. The crop tool is very effective, and the horizon tool is very flexible and accurate, but crop tool provides immediate interactive visual feedback and the horizon tool does not. Guides include Golden Thirds, Golden Spirals, or Aspect Ratios. Overall I am somewhat neutral on this topic, but there seems to be another element to this discussion that has not been touched on… sometimes you want to adjust by eye and not accurately… I’m not so sure that would be a “fix”, jp … The current crop tool is very effective providing much more than a simple “adjust by eye” approach.