Composition – following and breaking the rules
Posted by Tony on Aug 19, 2009
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The rules of composition are guidelines for producing a well designed image. ‘Guidelines’ are probably a better description than ‘rules’ as they just help us as a kind of starting point. Do not break the rules until you are an expert at following them. You need to understand how they work and how they help you create great compositions. Learn the rules and then break them only if it will create a better image than if you followed them. Rule of thirds Divide your frame into 9 equal parts and the lines and intersection become powerful places to place areas of...
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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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