Photoshop Basics – cropping techniques1 – cropping for composition.
There are many reasons why you might want to crop an image. You might want to make a smaller file size, you might have straightened an image and you need to correct it,or maybe you want to improve the composition. Let’s first look at cropping to improve composition. You may have a good picture but you want to get the composition perfect in terms of compositional rules such as the golden mean or the rule of thirds. Rule of thirds Open photoshop and go to Edit=>Preferences=>Guides, Grids, slices and Count… Open the dialogue box. In the ‘grid’ section, enter the...
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