There are guides for Rule of Thirds, Rule of Fifths, and even the Golden Ratio, if that’s the kind of thing you’re into. GIMP’s Crop tool comes with a few helpful on-screen guides that can help you recompose your shot in a way that puts a different emphasis on the subject.
Maybe something feels off in the composition, or there was an unwanted object at the frame edge (like a fingertip *cough*). Cropping GuidesĪ lot of cropping is done in order to recompose a photograph that (for whatever reason, no judgment here!) didn’t turn out right when you clicked the shutter. If you’re going to crop an image to a specific size, it’s often a good idea to use those dimensions as a guide for your aspect ratio lock setting, complete your crop on the unscaled version of your image, and then resize your cropped image down to match the final requirements.įor example, to crop a high-resolution picture to 1920×1080, locking your aspect ratio to 1.92:1.08 (or 19.2:10.8, let’s not be picky, it’s all the same!) will let you compose the cropped version freely without worrying about what’s going to fit into the final frame size dimensions. This really helps for fitting your images into an existing layout, whether that layout is a sheet of photo paper or an online image gallery.ĭon’t let that limit your creative vision, of course – like most “rules” in the creative world, it’s really more of a guideline. Locking the aspect ratio allows you to maintain specific image proportions exactly even while experimenting with different cropping options. I assume they just prefer to use whole numbers, but I don’t know if there’s a more complex mathematical explanation.) (Yes, I know that can be reduced to 1.5:1, but generally, the photography community uses 3:2 when referring to the ratio. For portrait orientation, the ratio is naturally reversed to 2:3.
Standard landscape-oriented photos have a 3:2 aspect ratio in the camera, so if the image is 3000 pixels wide, it will be 2000 pixels high. It sounds technical, but it’s actually pretty simple, so bear with me for a minute.Īspect ratio is the relationship between the height of your image and the width. Probably the most useful part of the Crop tool is the ability to lock the aspect ratio of your crop area. This might seem silly at first, but the more familiar you get with these tools, the faster you’ll be able to work! What’s an Aspect Ratio? The Crop tool is easy to learn, but it takes a few uses to really master it.
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