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Previewing aspect ratios in Photoshop

Previewing aspect ratios in Photoshop - Photoshop Tutorial

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Previewing aspect ratios in Photoshop

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- [Instructor] Here we are in Photoshop, and we're looking at a photograph called Phoenix Rising. This is an image of the Northern Lights taken in Sweden, and it was photographed using a 3 : 2. This was taken with a Cannon 35 millimeter camera. And so again as I mentioned this what I've been shooting really my whole career. And so as we frame this image in the field, we notice that there's a thin layer of snow, then we have the trees covered in snow needling up towards the Aurora, and you've got this wonderful shape and then filling into the corners there. When you're photographing in the field, you typically using a view finder or perhaps you're using something like a ya know, that has a LCD screen or even a smart phone has a screen you're looking at as well, you typically will compose the image within the real estate that you're given, right? So this was photographed with that in mind. It's a 2:3. Let's come over to the crop tool, okay right here. And up here we see Ratio. This is…

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