From the course: Learning Graphic Design: Cropping Photographs
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Seven kinds of crops
From the course: Learning Graphic Design: Cropping Photographs
Seven kinds of crops
- In this course, we'll see seven different kinds of crops, four basic ones and three that require special actions or tools. Each crop is ideal in a particular context. First is the Hard crop. This is the most common and the one you'll use the most. It's also the easiest to do. It's just a matter of deciding where the frame should end and cropping it there. You can crop from the top and bottom or the sides or both. It yields a rectangle of four hard edges, which very naturally fits a rectangular layout. Next is the Soft crop, which is what it sounds like. It's where the picture, instead of stopping at a hard edge, gradually fades away. To see this, let's first uncrop the picture and then apply a gradient. Some programs call this feathering. I like two things about it. It's light, airy, and indistinct, very different from the blockiness of rectangles, and there's also a sense that the image just continues into infinity, which really is how we see. Images in our peripheral view just…
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