THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU’LL EVER DO TO A PHOTO
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t’s best to get your framing
right in-camera, but this is not
always possible. You might have
missed a distracting object on
the edge of the frame, or perhaps a stray
tourist has walked in to your scene at the
decisive moment. And there are times
when it’s sensible to leave the framing
loose in the knowledge that you’ll crop in
later, such as when your subject is moving
too quickly to get the framing perfect, or if
you want to add words or other elements
to the image in post-production.
Thanks to Photoshop Elements’ Crop
tool, you can remove distracting objects at
the edges of the image or tighten up your
framing to improve your composition. Of
course, the more you crop into an image,
the more you eat away at the image size
and resolution. But with current digital
cameras producing files with large
dimensions, you can afford to lose a few
pixels and still produce images that are
large enough to print.
As well as cropping to improve the
composition, you might want to try out an
aspect ratio that differs from your camera’s
standard width and height, such as a
square or a panoramic. Or perhaps you’d
like to resize to a specific print size. All
this is possible within the Crop tool
settings. What’s more, the Elements 13
Crop tool comes with handy ‘Crop
Suggestions’, which offer four ways of
cropping your image based on classic
compositional guides such as the rule of
thirds. Elements also offers a tool that can
alter the composition of a photo while
preserving the shape of the subject. The
Recompose tool enables you to make
features that are separated by lots of space
become closer together without squashing
or stretching important parts of the
photograph. Here’s how it works...Improve the composition
How to improve a photo with a crop .........................................
Use the Crop tool to improve composition and resize
photographs to specific dimensions and ratios
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