Cropping can save photos from a crooked horizon or unwanted subjects in the frame, but it can also be used to create new and interesting images. For this reason, it's closely connected to the photographic principle of composition. Join teacher and photographer Chris Orwig as he shows you how to refocus your eye and reorient your photos with cropping. Learn how to use the Photoshop, Lightroom, and Camera Raw suite of tools to straighten, remove distracting elements, fix distortion, and add creative effects.

Topics include:

• Choosing a custom aspect ratio
• Cropping and straightening quickly
• Constraining the crop
• Cropping and rotating
• Resetting or removing a crop
• Changing the orientation
• Using lens correction to straighten a photo
• Resizing with cropping
• Cropping with layer masks
• Creating diptychs and triptychs

 

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