Cropping Non-Destructively in Photoshop

I was going to do a video on this in the near future but Richard Harrington beat me to it. It is so good that I am just going to give you the link to Richard’s blog and let you watch as Richard shows how to crop non-destructively in Photoshop.

Check out Rich’s excellent blog here.

Rikk Flohr © 2010

Content-aware Scaling for Composition

In a previous article we discussed the use of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS5 feature: Content-aware Scale. In that article our goal was to reasonably crop a panoramic image into an 8×10 aspect ratio for printing. Today’s video tutorial deals with using content-aware scaling to improve composition in an image.

As you can see from watching this video tutorial, cropping doesn’t have to be just edges anymore. You can take your pixels out of the middle to improve composition.

Rikk Flohr © 2010

Option 6: Magic – Panorama into 8×10

Thanks to a recent feature of Adobe Photoshop (CS4 and CS5 versions) we can now do magic. Remember back to the previous post, Letterbox or Leave-it-off? I promised you some crop magic to solve our dilemma of fitting a panoramic crop into an 8×10 frame.

For review, this was the 2:1 ratio our customer saw for sale on our website.

And this is the 5:4 or 8×10 image our customer wants to buy. Perhaps it isn’t my original wide-screen vision but, after all, it is a sale…

The video tutorial below will show you how to get here to there.

Watch this short tutorial on cropping with content-aware scaling in Photoshop

Buy This Print (8×10 or 8×16)

This above featured print is for sale at the Fleeting Glimpse Gallery. Follow this link. Support Holy Crop! and buy a print-just not an 8×10!

Rikk Flohr © 2010