How to Crop Photos for Scrapbooking!

Sometimes, we have a tendency to want to overdo certain things. I do this with cropping.

I will crop a little here and crop a little there until OOPS—I don’t have much picture left!!!

Avoid making this mistake by mapping out predefined crop marks and then cutting only around those lines.

Cropping photos has taken on new purpose over recent years. When one thinks of traditional cropping, they usually picture straight, indecisive lines.

We have learned through our growing knowledge of art and all things visual that you can actually crop photographs in specific ways in order to achieve different effects.

You can crop pictures with a decorative trimming or cropping tool and add a little pizzazz to your photos. You can cut at contrasting angles in order to give the illusion of depth.

You can even cut out certain portions of a picture, such as a person’s head and place it onto a different setting such as a picture of a scuba diver to give it creative, artistic flair.

Cropping photos can add a lot of life to your scrapbook but beware of the downfalls.

By removing too much of a photo you are running the risk of destroying valuable means of identification that may be used in the future such as backgrounds or any other items that would infer what period of time the photo was taken in.

The background is often as much of an important part of the memory as the subject is. Never crop something out of a picture that you might regret in the future.

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