Tips for Cropping Pictures for Scrapbooks

"Hi. Welcome back to Expert Village. The show is Arts and Crafts, and Everything Fun. Today we are learning how to scrapbook. My guest, Sonya Shepherd, from The Crop Circle is teaching us all about scrapbooking. You can check her out at thecropcircle.net. So what is the next step that we need to learn? The next step, Grace, is how to crop a photo. None of us are expert photographers. Well, some of us maybe, but most of us are just shooting our pictures quickly, and....amateur, and our pictures don't always turn out the way we dreamed they would. Especially with the digital cameras. Yow. It's a little bit more difficult. With the digital cameras you can see what you are doing a lot quicker, but you can still, you know. But you keep them anyway. "Keep that. I look good." Exactly. "I like that photo." So once you've printed them there's a way that you can actually fix that by cropping your photos or cutting them. What you really want to do, is that you want to identify the main focus of your photo. This one is my sister and I. It's right after my graduation from college, and it's a great photo, but really the most important part is the two of us right over here and I could care less about the space. Too much white space. So what you want to do is, you want to just cut it down. You can cut it horizontally here, vertically here, and you get a really fun focus on your photo, and then you can fit more on the page, which is really the point. You want to get a lot of memories on one page. And it's more fun to have different shapes than just the typical photo. Absolutely. So this gets you some different shapes. We're going to talk about some different shapes in the next segment. Different ways you can crop your photos to make them jump out of the page. Great. So stay tuned for that. That's coming up next."