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Cropping and rotating images

Cropping and rotating images

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Cropping and rotating images

If you're like me, you'll put together your craft, get it set up with the perfect background, and then when you go to take the photograph, either you didn't notice that there were some things out of frame that you didn't want, or to get the perfect angle, you just couldn't take the photograph without keeping some of the background visible. And that's what's happened here. I've made this little modern home model Based on an image I saw somewhere. So I've made this paper house and it's stuck into this piece of sod with toothpicks. I've got a big rock for my garden. It has a mountain in the background. There's a very serene waterfall falling down the rock, with a little Q-tip as some water fuzz and, or water splashes. And it turns into a river. And then the whole thing is in front of a backdrop of a construction paper and wax paper cloud sky. So, you kinda see what's going on, but you can really tell what's going on if this photograph had been cropped better. Either I couldn't do it in…

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