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• #PHOTOSHOP CROP PHOTO PATCH#

I don’t like that, especially as she’s looking towards the right side of the frame, and I never want to have my subjects looking to the more closed side of the frame rather than the open side. As you look at it, she’s slightly closer to the right side of the frame than the left. In this first image, before I’ve used the crop tool, you can see that there’s a lack of balance or symmetry in relation to where my daughter is positioned in the frame. Let me give you a visual example of what I’m talking about in the image below. My youngest daughter has the attention span of a gnat when she’s out in a new place with lots of shiny trinkets and games around her, so hoping for a perfect composition every time I shoot her is like hoping I don’t see new gray hairs every time I look in the mirror - impossible.Īware of that, I always shoot wider than I need to because I know I can come back later when it’s time to edit and use the crop tool for better composition.

That’s especially true when you’re trying to shoot kids. Very often, when you’re out shooting photos of things that are not static objects like mountains or rocks, it’s very difficult to get a perfect composition in camera. There are many great articles here on Fstoppers discussing composition, so if it’s something you’re interested in knowing more about, I encourage you to do a search. In short, composition refers to how you position all the elements in your frame, including your subject. The second major reason you should always consider cropping your images is for better composition.

However, for quickly removing unwanted elements in your frame, especially near the edges, you can’t beat the Crop tool, and it should arguably be your first tool of choice once you sit down to edit.

#PHOTOSHOP CROP PHOTO PATCH#

In Photoshop, you’ve got the Patch tool, the Content-Aware tool, the Healing Brush tool, the Spot Healing Brush tool, and the Clone Stamp tool, to name a few. It’s worth noting that once you’ve used the Crop Tool to get rid of any unwanted distractions, you can then call on a vast array of tools in Photoshop, Lightroom, or your editing platform of choice to follow up with some cleanup work. Here's the result after I cropped her out and cropped a little in from the left side of the frame too. Going back to that earlier question, there’s absolutely no reason to keep her there, as she’s not adding anything to the composition - quite the opposite, as she’s taking the focus off the subjects. In this case, it’s a very easy decision to just crop my daughter out of the bottom right corner of the frame. Here’s one instance of how she tried her best to get in front of the lens: just as I was about to push the shutter button, she took two big steps backwards and managed to get her half her head in the frame. Unfortunately, my eldest daughter, cheeky and uncooperative as ever, decided she’d try to photobomb every image I took. This image above was taken at a shrine in the south of Japan when we were celebrating a milestone in my youngest daughter’s life. Let me give you an example so you can see how useful the crop tool is in removing distractions. That’s when the crop tool becomes your best friend. In those situations, when you’re torn about whether you should keep something in your frame or not, ask yourself this question: is this element enhancing the image or strengthening the composition? If it’s not, then get rid of it. Sometimes, making those decisions about which elements to keep and which elements to discard is easy. When we take any kind of photo, regardless of genre, we have to make conscious choices about the elements we want to keep in our frame and the elements that are unnecessary or extraneous. The first, and perhaps most important, reason for cropping your images is to remove distractions or unwanted elements in the frame.