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Cropping and basic adjustments

Cropping and basic adjustments

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Cropping and basic adjustments

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- [Instructor] Our next step in our workflow here is to select an image to work on. There are a handful of keepers in this set, I'm gonna say about six or eight images that I think are keepers. I'm gonna start off with the first keeper from the set, this one here, and there are two which are very similar, so I'll just use my arrow keys to go back and forth. And the look is nearly identical. And I think I'm gonna go with this one here, and then I'll tap the R key to select the crop tool. Now, I wanna crop in a little bit and also I need to level it out. One of the problems was that it wasn't level. So I had shot at a little bit of an angle, which wasn't very good, so I need to fix that and tap the R key and make sure she's centered. The idea that I had for this photograph when I was capturing it was this really just straightforward connected image like we have here. Press F to go to full screen mode. I like to do that to get rid of everything else, just so I can see the image. I think…

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