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Cropping the keepers

Cropping the keepers

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Cropping the keepers

- [Narrator] Alright next, let's take a look at how we can crop and recompose these photographs. With this first one, I actually like the composition of this, now that I sit with it a little bit, and I've removed the other images. I like the connection, just love his bright, sparkling eyes, and all of that, and the light, the window light coming off from the side, but I do want to try out a few other ideas. So I'll press Command + apostrophe on Mac, Control + apostrophe on Windows, and I'm gonna go ahead and free transform this. I like that he has messy hair, and just complete kid. You know, it captures his personality here so well. So I'm gonna create one where I am cropping in, and coming in a little bit closer. So we have one more pulled, one up nice and close, and just trying to find the right crop for that. And I think what I'm gonna do, a little more of a free form crop here actually, than the exact aspect ratio. Okay, well that's really cool, loving it. Took me a couple of…

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