Cropping Photos
With Confidence

Would you like to crop with confindence?

Cropping photos is one of the basic steps in creating a scrapbook page. Many beginners want to crop photos into many shapes.

It's easy to get carried away and later wish you hadn't cropped so much out of your photos. When we crop photos, remember that often less is more.

There are a number of reasons why we crop photos to place on a scrapbook page.

One of the main reasons is to fit more photos on a page and create visual variety that is pleasing to the eye.

Let's take a look at some of the ways we can crop photos for stunning scrapbook pages.

Photos can be cropped to balance the photo. If you are like me, you don't always take time to compose your shot perfectly. Kids often don't hold still long enough to get that perfect shot.

This is easy with digital photos. Sometimes the subject of the photo is small, and gets lots. If we tried the crop around the subject the photo would be too small. We can crop to enlarge the subject before we print the photo. This can be done with photo editing software on the computer or at the photo lab.

Distracting backgrounds can be cropped out of photos. No one wants to showcase the dishes that were stacked by the sink in their scrapbook. Life happens, by cropping photos we can show off the subject of the photo instead. For photos taken in a public place we can crop out other people in the background.

Photos can be cropped into creative shapes, circles or ovals. Use this sparingly. Cropping most of your photos in square and rectangle shapes is classic and will always look pleasing. Circles and ovals are a classic shape to add variety to a page.

Now that we've covered some ways we can crop photos, let's take a look at some things we don't want to do.

Keep these tips in mind and you will be cropping photos with ease, and creating beautiful scrapbook pages.






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