Instruction manual

Following are some cropping tips (examples are from Photoshop

Elements):

• Don’t mess with success. If you’ve successfully framed the photo at

the time it was taken, don’t automatically feel the need to trim more.

Often, leaving the photo just as it was captured by the camera is the

best crop of all.

However, if you do want to trim you just open the photo in your photo

editing program. In the example we want to crop the photo so the

aircraft strut is no longer in the photo.

• Use the Crop tool’s adjustment handles. Trying to get the exact crop

by dragging the Crop tool with the mouse is difficult, and sometimes

impossible due to the invisible grids that govern mouse movement.

Instead, just get the picture you want inside the cropping box by

clicking and dragging the tool across the image to create a cropping

box that frames the picture. The area that you see inside the crop

box will be kept and anything outside the box will be cut away. Next,

release the mouse button and make the fine adjustments (height and

width) with the adjustment handles on the cropping box.