Learning Graphic Design: Cropping Photographs

Make your layouts more visually interesting and your images more powerful with cropping.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Understanding Cropping

• Seven kinds of crops
• The eye and mind see differently
• The center, the edge, and the rule of thirds
• People are special

2. Let's Get Cropping

• Cropping for uniformity
• Cropping to fit a space
• Cropping from the middle
• Cropping to a shape
• Cropping: Edges and angles
• Cropping to make a story
• Cropping: Getting out of the box and the false crop

Review

• Wrap up