Cropping - Cut out the 'fat'

Always keep in mind that people have to wait for a photo to 'download' into their web browser, even if it's only a few seconds. In this 'sound byte' world, every second counts! So make sure your photos are 'all relevant content'.

Let's assume that in this photo, the white truck is what you're trying to focus on. So we'll use the 'Crop' tool - found in my program under Image-Crop but notably the tool doesn't show up until I've 'marqueed' or selected the area I'm keeping. I select the marquee tool, click and drag to select...

Then I select the 'Image' drop down menu, and 'Crop'. Afterward I'll use Image-Image Size to set the resolution to my personal default 100 resolution and 6 inch print size (sometimes 5 inch - again to save on download time). NOTE that I resize AFTER all of my corrections are done so that I have maximum available resolution/print size to during corrections & enhancements.

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