With every mind-numbing stroke of the Clone Tool, you’ll be thinking "Why didn’t I just keep the pixels that were there in the first place?"
The tedium of trying to create extra detail around the edges of your photo to give you enough space for the wrap will drive you up the wall. You’ll also find yourself in trouble if you’ve cropped tight, then your client orders a gallery-wrapped canvas. If you crop to one particular shape, then your client (or your Mum, or whoever) orders a print of a different shape, you can find yourself in trouble.
The most common problem caused by early cropping relates to print sizes. It costs you nothing to keep them, and it might cost you a heck of a lot of time if you don’t. You do NOT know when you’re going to need those pixels. "I have to crop to the Rule of Thirds!" No."But I need to crop away some dead space!" No.Don’t crop your raw file, and don’t crop in Photoshop while creating your masterpiece. Let me make this very plain: DON’T CROP DURING EDITING. So I need to discuss when and how cropping should take place in your imaging workflow. But despite being so simple, there are lots of ways to get cropping wrong, and lots of frustration if you do.
It’s a simple concept that’s as old as photography itself, and it’s really important. In all programs, the Crop Tool looks something like this … In digital terms, we remove some excess pixels from one or more sides of the file. If we had a physical photographic print in our hands, we’d crop it by cutting it with scissors or a scalpel, and throwing part of it away.
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