Comments on: Think Inside the Box – Cropping for Maximum Impact

By: Kenette Krasuski

Kenette Krasuski — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:43:06 +0000

I am a scrapbooker and just beginning with the digital scrapbooking. I am searching for a program that will easily allow me to cleanly crop a subject out of a photo so I can use that subject with a new background when making a “fun” scrapbook page. I have a photo of my granddaughter on a swing… I want to crop her completely out of the photo so I can place her on my digital scrapbook page in a cute floral swing. I currently am trying to do that in Serif PhotoPlus X4. The “eraser” doesn’t outline cleanly, and I end up erasing bits of an arm or leg, and cropping around long hair is an almost impossibility. I hate to buy a new photoshop program without knowing it will really easily do what I need it to do. Help!

By: Allan Smailes

Allan Smailes — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:35:29 +0000

Allan Smailes North Queensland Australia

Darren your tips are Awesome.

Keep up the Good work.

By: Allan Smailes

Allan Smailes — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:33:59 +0000

I’m A Passionate Professional wedding photographer In Townasville North Queensland Australia
Darren you have the best photography digital school I have seen, I love your Tips.
Very Inspirational Keep up the good work. Cheers Allan.

By: Alan Nielsen

Alan Nielsen — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:08:13 +0000

I leave lots of room in my pictures for Cropping. That is one thing that I don’t always try to “get it right in the camera”.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:02:47 +0000

Rules are meant to be broken anyway, but this article serves as a very good guide to the commonly used tool (for me that is). I am using Google’s freeware photo editior, Picasa 3, to manage the crop, rotate and other simple adjustment.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:06:30 +0000

Fun article! Love it! Funny – I’m such a Photoshop snob that I never even consider that a program like Picasa could have some fun or useful features! LOL!

Thanks for the enlightenment!

Susan

By: Ilan

Ilan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:16:30 +0000

Right crop is a surgeons tools – You must be very delicate, precise and not overdo it.
It’s very hard to break the rules of composition in a way that will still look ‘right’.
Sometimes, cropping/zooming is great for story telling – http://www.ilanbresler.com/2009/06/love-story.html which is another example that maybe missing from the post.
But again – It’s always should be very precise. “Bad” crop can ruin a perfectly good photo.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:20:05 +0000

I do find cropping to be essential. Combined with the Mpix and resolution of modern cameras, it gives you an astounding degree of freedom. I often find treasures in old pictures I didn’t like to much at first.

Here’s a colorful Japanese shrine roof, for example, really nice after some cropping:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/focx/3859154982/

This rusty old ladder for example wouldn’t feel like one in a normal-sized picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/focx/3817848746/

And feel free to have a look at my photostream on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/focx/

By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:18:28 +0000

If everyone crops inside the box I’ll have to start thinking outside of another box.

By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:17:59 +0000

If everyone crops inside the box I’ll have to stard thinking outside of another box.