Crop Corner

"Great site, and thanks for the response to my question." In the past, photographers had only a few painful and/or expensive options when it came to removing distractions from a photo after the film had been processed. If a tree branch, thumb, or stranger was unwittingly included in the image, the photographers' choices were limited to retouching the photo with paints, cropping out the unwanted part of the picture, or tossing the whole thing in the trash. With an image editing program such as Adobe Photoshop or ImageReady, photographers are no longer as limited when it comes to removing extraneous elements. Such programs feature tools to help make winners out of these marginal shots.