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To Crop or Not to Crop? That is the question...
by Brenda Tharp
author of Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography
Why is cropping frowned upon by some, and used heavily by others?
Crop good if you want extra zoom from chosen lens,
Crop bad if you want to keep wide angle from chosen lens,
Crop good if you want a bit extra zoom while retaining the arpeture setting of the lens as it would be set to wide.
Crop - it's not seedy
Ask a farmer and a photographer what a good crop is, and you'll get two different answers.
One will say "wheat" and the other will ask "how long have you got?"! ...
If you crop photo's of moving animals too tightly within the frame, they almost seem as though they are similar to a bird trapped in a cage. Animals and wildlife especially, should be free to roam.
The basics of the Crop Tool in Photoshop are fairly straightforward. After dragging a rectangle over your image, you press enter and the image is cropped as you specified.
Just remember the crop factor in your lens buying adventure. A wide-angle lens will behave like a normal lens when used on a camera with crop factor.
What if you don't crop? Well, you have different views, but you can still compare DOF I guess. The focal length of the lens is the same in each case, so the ratio of the DOFs is just the ratio of the circle of confusion values, 18.
Techniques Glossary CROP FACTOR
Describes how much an imaging sensor has been cropped in relation to its full-frame equivalent. It always describes how many times larger the full-frame is in relation to the cropped sensor.
CROP FACTOR SENSORS AND LENS PERFORMANCE
The crop factor, FOV and perspective rules follow each camera through it's entire range of photographic capabilities from wide angle to telephoto. If you want the equivalent of 24mm on a 1.
Crop. To trim the edges of an image, often to improve the composition. Cropping can be done by moving the camera position while viewing a scene, or by trimming the finished print.
Crop or retouch
As visual communicators, we're responsible for everything that's in the frame; we're also responsible for everything that's not in the frame. Read More...
Crop
To crop the image, go to the vertical tool bar and click on the top left icon. A sub-icon menu of five icons appears. Choose the one on the right. Take the cursor and place it in the corner of the image.
Crop the image to the desired aspect ratio. Programs such as Photoshop let you crop or select areas of an image using any aspect ratio that you specify. To do it manually you:
1. Determine the aspect ratio you want to use.
Crop - To trim an image or page.
Data Compression - A method of reducing the size of files, such as image files, by representing the sets of binary numbers in the file with shorter string that conveys the same information.
crop:
The action of trimming away the unwanted parts of an image.
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Crop
In computer graphics, to cut off the sides of an image to make it the proper size or to remove unwanted parts. Most graphics applications allow you to crop images with a clip feature.
Crop. To trim an image or page by adjusting its boundaries.
Cropping. Cutting out unwanted (edge) parts of a picture, typically at the printing or mounting stage.printer or monitor when compared with the original image.
Crop: In order to eliminate portions of the copy, photograph or artwork, cropmarks are placed on the original or overlay to indicate which portions are to be eliminated.
Crop-sensors advantages
- Generally considered better for macro, especially for super-macro
- Approximately 60% more depth of field than a full-frame sensor, given an equivalent field of view ...
crop
to opaque, mask, or trim part of an image to fit a designated area.
crop marks
sometimes referred to as tick marks, small marks placed in the margin, denoting the live area or areas of an image to be reproduced.
E. Crop of Image C.
F. Coolpix 5000 (19mm)
(after enlarging 20% in Photoshop (Bicubiq) ...
DO I CROP OR USE A TELECONVERTER?
Cropping into an image gives the same effect as using a longer lens. To check whether this is a practical option we did a test using a Canon EOS 5D, with a 100-400mm lens set to 300mm and the 1.
Auto-crop output
Use this option for automatically trimming the output image to avoid artifacts on the edges.
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Viewing the pictures ...
Rotate, crop and matte photos. Photo editing software makes it simple to rotate a photo (90 degrees if you took the picture with the camera turned to the side, or smaller amounts if the horizon is just slightly out of line).
Step 1: Crop Out Distractions
Have you ever looked around you and been disappointed about your subject's location? Maybe it's a messy home interior or an unremarkable backyard.
How To: Crop For a Better Photo
Cropping in can help to center attention.
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Step 3: Crop an image that has already been resized and placed
Over in the Layers window, click right on the layer corresponding to the photo that you wish to crop. Select "Edit Content" from the menu of choices.
Crop both photos to the same size
Adjust white balance on both photos if needed
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Crop photos for better composition
Get better compositions by removing distracting clutter from within a frame
Techniques & tips ...
Crop. This is a very basic and very useful change you can make. Simply cut out those parts of the photo that you don't want.
Crop
To delete part of an image or its border for a more pleasing effect through the elimination of distracting or unwanted details.
Crop Factor
(also:
Focal Length Multiplier
35mm Equivalent)
Not to be confused with "Crop" of a picture, these terms are exclusively used in the context of relating focal length to field of view (FOV), ...
Crop from Alleia Hamerops showing the red, green and blue colour channels as well as the composite image.
Crop-A-Dile is not only a hole puncher that punches through almost anything, but it is also an effortless eyelet setter.
Decorative scissors can cut scallops, zig-zags, and a host of other fancy edges and borders.
crop marks lines printed with an image to show the dimensions to which finished pages should be trimmed
fill the color or tint applied to the interior of a character form
disk a magnetic medium on which the computer stores information ...
To crop the image, the Rectangular Marquee tool is chosen from the Tools palette (see Figure 14). Once the Rectangular Marquee tool is selected, the Rectangular Marquee Tool options will appear in the Options bar (see Figure 15).
3 Crop And Rotate. I'm a strong believer in cropping out problems early on. Junk often shows up along the image edges, for example, and it's worth removing that junk and fixing crooked horizons before moving on.
5. Crop in the right places. When taking pictures of people, the bottom of the frame should be across the shoulders, hips, middle thigh or middle calf. Making people look like a head only or an amputee is not flattering.
How to Crop a Digital Photo Using Adobe Photoshop
2. How to Convert Your Photos to Black and White in Photoshop CS3
3. How to Remove Red Eye Using Adobe Photoshop CS3
4. How to Remove Blemishes using Photoshop CS3 & CS4
5.
Constrain crop
Whenever you correct perspective, some cropping will be required after the correction has been made. You can do this manually via the Crop Overlay, but Lightroom can actually do it for you while you correct the perspective! ...
100-percent crop, Tokina 10mm
100-percent crop, Nikkor 10.5mm
200-percent crop
Q: I hear lots of good things about the Tokina 10-17mm fisheye zoom. However, I have a Nikon D200, and I'm afraid to buy anything other than Nikon lenses for my camera.
Rotate and Crop
If you've taken a photo in a wrong orientation, it's easily corrected with little loss in quality by using a rotate tool.
Whenever you crop your photo, you limit the size you can print your image without it looking fuzzy or jagged.
6X Crop Factor
The one thing that sold me on the D700 was the fact that its full-frame sensor made it 2EV(Exposure Values) faster than my D300 and that's something very important when you shoot with natural light in very low-light situation as I do a ...
Zoom in and Crop. Just by zooming in and cropping the image in-camera you can change a photo from unimpressive to very attractive.
Full Frame vs Crop Sensor
There is a lot of confusion about the nature of cameras with the APS-C sensor size vs. cameras with 35mm sensor size.
Composition and crop are both very important aspects of flower photography. Having a good 'eye' is always a great skill to have...but then again, this would apply to any subject matter, not just plants.
An 'actual pixels' crop from the image shows that it is extremely sharp. I thought that you would need a macro lens for this kind of quality. I was wrong. Score 1 for my philosophy of trying to get away with cheap kit before getting expensive stuff ...
(NMA) CROP-To trim or cut off parts of the picture by printing methods to eliminate superfluous portions, and thus improve the composition.
crop - to reduce a picture to a smaller area, cutting off the edges - usually to leave a better composition.
cross processing - developing a film using a process intended for a different kind of film - i.e.
You can crop the image to fit the frame ...
Panoramic Formats: Panoramic formats have become very popular in the past few years. Many 35mm cameras now include a panoramic inserts as well as some range finder and medium format cameras.
Crop your photos - working with digital photos lets you zoom in and print a particular part of a photo.
If your image has unnecessary information in the background, crop the photo (unless the rules don't allow it).
Photos should be properly exposed.
Focal Length Multiplier and Crop Factor
Whether a camera lens is seen as wide-angle or tele is dependent on its Angle of View (AoV); for a particular image size AoV is dependent on focal length.
Use to crop during printing. edge number Film has a clear unexposed strip running the length of both edges.
A high MegaPixel count comes in handy when you want to crop pictures, and when you want to make enlargements. For uncropped 4x6 prints, 2 megapixels are usually enough, but for 5x7s and 8x6s, you kinda need to go up to 3 if you want a sharp picture.
With image editing software, you can darken or lighten a photo, rotate it, adjust its contrast, crop out extraneous detail, remove red-eye and more.
Image resolution: ...
Most also include image-editing software--which lets you crop, adjust, or add special effects to your photos--and the cables and/or cards you need to connect to your computer.
If you have to crop, you can do that later on.
Avoid filling the frame with your subject's face. Sometimes, if you don't make use of a leveling device like a tripod, your photo may not be straight.
 See also: Camera, Image, Photograph, Digital, Light
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