Questions tagged [cropping]
part of the editing process whereby unwanted portions are removed from the edges of an image
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Is digital zoom really useful?
I've always wondered what is the use of digital zoom, apart from viewing the subject clearly on the LCD display.
We can take a photo with the optical
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Is there a software to automatically crop a scan of multiple images?
I want to digitize my old family albums using a scanner and there are lots of photos in them. Thus far, my method has been to scan 4 images at a time and then manually cropping them in a simple editor ...
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What is the best way to auto crop bulk images?
I need to scan a large volume of book covers and even though the scanner (HP) most of the time scans/auto-sizes, many are left with white/grey space on the sides.
What is the best way I can automate ...
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How can I crop a single layer in Photoshop?
Is it possible to crop a single layer, I can almost get the desired outcome using the eraser on a layer but surely it can be done with cropping?
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When is it OK to place the subject in the middle of a picture?
When is it OK to place the subject in the middle of a picture?
I took this picture and feel very compelled to put the subject in the centre rather than on the sides.
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What things should one take into account when looking at cropping a photo?
When looking at cropping a photo:
How do you decide whether to crop it or not (for starters)?
What things should you take into account - both practical and artistic?
I guess that this question is ...
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What is "100% crop?"
I use the term "100% crop" to mean a portion of a picture that has been cropped but not resized, but I have also seen some confusion around that term.
Is there an accepted definition for "100% crop?"
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How can I batch crop based on face location?
I've got 12,000 photos from an event where there's only one person in each photo. I need to crop these photos to apply rule of thirds. The idea of doing all of these individually is daunting and I can'...
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How do you change from portrait to landscape in Lightroom?
I have a picture that I shot in landscape (4x6 ratio) that I want to crop to portrait (5x7 ratio). I see how I can do a 5x7 landscape or a 4x6 portrait, but not a 5x7 portrait.
How do you do this?
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How do I crop pictures to certain proportion in Photoshop?
For reference, I use Photoshop CS5 Extended. I would prefer to find a way to do what I want in this software.
I often want to crop my pictures so that they fit a certain proportion (either for ...
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What program can automatically resize & crop a folder of images to a certain resolution?
I'd like to take a folder of images of various sizes and have them cropped into a 600x600 grid square, cut out from the middle of the image. Is there a program that can automatically resize and crop ...
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How to choose the most appropriate composition?
I've read What and how to crop? & yes, I really do understand the theory - even if it boils down to pick an aspect you like & emphasise it.
I don't want this to be a "which one do you like ...
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What should I consider for cropping aspect ratios?
The question What things should one take into account when looking at cropping a photo? asks about factors that affect composition during cropping.
I'm interested in a very specific sub-set of this, ...
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What and how to crop?
When I take a photo of something like a building, I tend to shoot the whole building, because later I want to get the feeling and impression I had when I took this photo. I want to transfer these ...
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How to Bulk-Crop many images whitespace?
I want to crop the white space in 300 pictures
Is there any software out there that does it?
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Should I crop photos from a prime instead of using a zoom lens?
I wonder whether using a compact, bright, fixed focal lens instead of a large zoom lens will yield comparable results in terms of light gathering ability and resolution.
I am not interested in ...
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How can I improve the crop on this photo?
I have this photo of a vine that I've finally level-adjusted to a point where I'm mostly satisfied, but the crop is giving me trouble. I used the Rule of Thirds to set my crop area, and it seems about ...
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Can I get better image quality with a higher focal length or by cropping an image from a sharper lens?
Two well known ways to get better image quality are to use a sharper lens, and to zoom in to fill the frame (as opposed to zooming out and cropping in post). Sometimes there is a give and take between ...
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Is there a tool that provides hotkeys for crop ratios when editing raw files?
I crop a huge portion of my photos to an aspect ratio that's different from the original source. I'm looking for a tool that let me do that quickly via hotkeys. For example, I'd like to be able to ...
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Is it better to crop in Raw than JPEG?
Recently we cropped a JPEG photo a lot in Photoshop Elements, and noticed we had lost a lot of resolution when we had the photo printed. Would it have been better to shoot in Raw, and not lose so much ...
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Can I crop to an exact size in Darktable?
I am trying Darktable for raw processing, and I want to crop an image to an exact size (e.g., 1280x720), specifying the content to retain by moving the rectangle around after it's sized. This is ...
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Cropping images in post-production - how important is the image ratio?
On some photos, I have some parts that I want to remove, as it was not possible to be removed while shooting. For example, consider this composition:
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How to get a full-screen preview of a cropped area in RawTherapee?
I've used the crop tool in RawTheraee to crop a raw image:
Is there a way to full-screen preview the cropped section prior to exporting?
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Printing out a photo taken in Landscape, in Portrait
I have a selection of photos on my PC that were taken in Landscape, but I want to make Portrait. The reason for this is so they can fit Portrait slots in a multi picture frame. I have chosen these ...
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How do I crop to least rectangular extent after Photomerge?
After stitching a panorama using Photomerge, how can I crop out all the empty space on the sides? Seems like there should be a tool for this, but I can't find one in Photoshop.
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Can I use Lightroom to crop a photo evenly around a center point?
I've recently been photographing with a 4.5mm circular fisheye lens and am finding that a square crop is a nice way to present the resulting images. Is there a way to indicate to Lightroom that I'd ...
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Automatic & intelligent crop 1,000 images
I have about 1,000 scanned / photographed images, each with different formats but all with rectangular/square shape, that need to be cropped to remove the background and the white space around the ...
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How to disable automatic cropping that's done after distortion correction in DxO Optics Pro 9 or 10?
DxO uses so-called "modules" that apparently contain many lens parameters and they are implicitly used for correcting geometric distortion, and some other issues in pictures automatically. ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut for 4x6 crop in Lightroom 4, or way to set a default aspect ratio?
I spend a lot of time cropping photos into the 4x6 aspect ratio in order for friends and family to get prints.
When I switch to the crop tool, Lightroom always starts with an unlocked, "Original" ...
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How to print a square photo on standard paper?
I have a picture frame which is square but I don't understand how to print a cropped (square) photo out, say on A4 paper, so that I can cut away the excess, leaving a perfectly sized photo for my ...
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What will be my aperture with a 2× teleconverter? [duplicate]
I have a Canon 60D (crop factor 1.6x) and an 85mm f1.8 prime lens. Now I want to add a 2x teleconverter and attach the 85mm lens to it.
My question is: What will the effective aperture be?
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How can I automatically apply smart cropping to hundreds of coin photos?
I am having terrible difficulty.
I routinely have to photograph and then edit hundreds of coin pictures.
I then by hand crop out the excess background leaving a small border around the coin.
I know ...
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Resize to the photo.stackexchange.com header photo size with Lightroom
I want to submit a photo to photo.stackexchange.com site (like here) and they ask for a specific maximum image size (375x210).
Is there an easy way to resize and crop an image to this size using ...
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Is it possible to add letterboxing during Lightroom export?
[Edit: the underlying problem has been fixed in iOS 9.2]
I export my favourite photos from Lightroom for viewing on an iPad. My camera takes photos with a 3:2 aspect ratio; the iPad screen has a 4:3 ...
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Can I straighten and crop without RAW image and without Photoshop?
I didn't take my pictures in RAW mode and have a tilted horizon. Don't have Photoshop, only whatever tools came with my Canon 450D, which seem to only work with RAW mode pictures.
How do I do this?
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What will I lose by switching from FX to DX mode (with an FX lens)?
I have a full frame camera (Nikon D-810) and a tele lens (Nikon 70-200mm) and want to use it as my first experience in a fashion runway show.
It is not like I want a full frame to capture a landscape ...
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What is the difference between zooming in and cropping?
If I take a photo by zooming in (optical) and cropping a photo without zoom. What would be the difference between the two?
I know cropping reduces the photo quality but I'm interested in other ...
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How will an image from my Canon 7D look as an 8' by 8' poster? Will using TIFF over JPEG make a difference?
The organizer of a trade show just asked me if he could use one of the images that I took with my Canon 7D for as a backdrop. He said that he needs to photo in TIFF format, and said that he wants to ...
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More megapixels to compensate for small zoom (Or: How good is Sony's Smart Zoom?)
Short version of my question: How can I compare cameras with different optical zooms and different megapixels (more megapixels can allow cropping for a fake zoom effect) in order to tell which camera ...
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If it's not a 100% crop, what is it? [duplicate]
I've been reading a camera review which shows a picture with a tiny rectangle highlighted. It then shows that rectangle expanded to the same size as the original picture so that one can see the detail....
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Cropping to a desired size in LightRoom
Seems a simple thing really, but is it unusual that I just can't seem to crop well in Lightroom? I love it for organising and editing my photos, but I find that if I want to get fine grain cropping ...
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How to cut an irregular pattern with proper transparency?
This may be hard to describe and I'm not proficient enough to draw it yet so please bear with me.
I'm cutting parts of some photos of me and my girlfriend to put on a board game I'm making for her. ...
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How to clear edges from a lasso cropped object in Photoshop CS6?
I've cropped this picture with the lasso tool:
What's my next move about this? Do I do this manually by removing pixel by pixel or are there some quicker solutions for this task?
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Which is sharper, theoretically - small image at 100% or large image re-sized in Photoshop?
I take macro shots of watches and post them on the web (not intended for printing), typically 640x480px. I've been composing those shots in the 1504x1000px frame so that it shows the required size on-...
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Is it possible to get the Histogram display in Lightroom to only consider the area selected by your cropping?
I've noticed that when I crop a photo, the histogram does not change. If I am then making changes based on the histogram (ie. exposure, fill light, blacks, etc...), it would seem to me that the ...
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What is the light called that is outside the area of the capture medium?
Is there a name for the light that passes through a lens and does not make it to the capture medium (sensor, film, other)?
I'm looking for the name of the grey area in the following image from ...
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Is there any difference between cropping an image in ACR vs. Photoshop Elements editor?
I have Photoshop Elements 12 and ACR v8.4. They both give me the ability to crop my image. I shoot in RAW and I have a Canon 6D. I remember reading somewhere that it was better to crop your image in ...
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does anyone here know of a scanner that will auto-crop perfectly every time, without having to preview the image first or edit it afterwards?
We need it for scanning large numbers of different books, which are never standard sizes, as quickly as possible. Surely such a scanner exists but I cannot seem to find one? Everything seems to be ...
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Crop overlap in existing panorama
I have multiple partial spherical panorama pictures taken using the standard Android panorama function. The problem is that the panorama does not stop at 360 degrees, but is overlapping at the left/...
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How would a school photographer compose shots for easy cropping?
I work at a school, and at the start of each year my department (combined IT and library) plays the role of school photographer of sorts, taking photos of several hundred new students that end up on ...
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