More importantly, whole-image transformation forces
you to think about basic image composition and ponder
some big-picture questions:
- The photo in Figure 2-2 is clearly at an angle.
What angle might that be? How can Photoshop
help you find your footing when the world is
askew? - After you rotate the image, you have to crop it.
Never content to limit you to a single approach,
Photoshop dedicates one tool, four commands,
and a score of options to the task (symbolically il-
lustrated in Figure 2-3). Variety is the spice of life,
but which one do you use when? - After the crop is complete, there’s the problem of
scale. Should you reduce or increase the number
of pixels? Or should you merely reduce the resolu-
tion to print the image larger, as in Figure 2-4?
I provide these questions merely to whet your appetite
for the morsels of knowledge that follow. If they seem
like a lot to ponder, never fear; the forthcoming lesson
makes the answers perfectly clear.
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