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Cropping the final image

Cropping the final image - Photomatix Tutorial

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Cropping the final image

- Cropping is the conscious choice to remove parts of a photo. Now Photomatix might automatically crop as it aligns your racketed photos. But after the fact, you might decide that there's parts of a scene that you don't want. Or that you want to get a specific sized output or aspect ratio. With the image open, select the crop tool, and you'll see that you can specify the aspect ratio. A free crop will let you decide what crop shape you use, but I suggest going to something here like three by two to begin. Let's make this a little bigger. And I'll view this at the default size. Now as I click and drag, you see we've got the three by two aspect ratio. And I can reposition that. If I select the original aspect ratio, it's going to match that to the photo, but allows me to punch in a little bit if I wanted to lose some of the edges. For example, maybe I don't want quite as much of that pillar. And that allows me to compensate. Now you can decide to choose from different aspect ratios here…

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