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FIGURE 1-5 Some color-correction tools from PhotoSuite 4, a program commonlyused after scanning You Can Cut and Crop a Scanned Image There’s a lot to worry about when you take a photo—t

FIGURE 1-5 Some color-correction tools from PhotoSuite 4, a program commonly

used after scanning

You Can Cut and Crop a Scanned Image

There’s a lot to worry about when you take a photo—the subject, the lighting, the background, and so on—and just when you get everyone perfectly positioned against the sunset beach, some unwanted passerby plunks down in the background with a beach umbrella The ability to crop an image can solve this problem You might simply be able to crop out that umbrella

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The ability to crop an image allows you control over your subject matter You can concentrate on getting the shot, and worry later about what’s in the background Cropping also allows you to emphasize the important parts of a photo Figures 1-6 and 1-7 illustrate how getting rid of some extraneous background focuses attention on the subjects Figures 1-8 and 1-9 illustrate how scanning and cropping allow you to turn a spontaneous photo into a portrait of your intended subject

FIGURE 1-6 Lots of extraneous background detracts from this shot

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FIGURE 1-7 Cropping cleans up the background and focuses attention

on the subjects

FIGURE 1-8 This spontaneous photo captures a smiling subject

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FIGURE 1-9 Cropping creates a portrait

You Can Combine Multiple Scanned Photos

Most image-editing programs that are used with scanners allow you to cut out and combine portions of a photo You can create interesting collages, composites, and artistic scenes using these features Figures 1-10 and 1-11 show how the subject from one image can be superimposed on another photo

Chapter 10 tells you how to create cutouts from scanned images and provides ideas for interesting applications of this tool.

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FIGURE 1-10 A subject can be cut from this photo

FIGURE 1-11 The subject superimposed on another photographic background

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