Saturday, April 7, 2012

Cropping Photos in Aperture 2.0

Shown above are two photos that I shot of the San Diego skyline.  The first one is the original, and the second one is a crop of the second one.  There are two ways to crop a photo in Aperture.  If you select "Constrain to Master Aspect Ratio" your cropping cursor will adjust to the same ratio as your original photo.  So if your photo was originally say the "pixel size" was  3000 by 4000 pixels your cropping options will be along the lines of 1500 by 2000, 750 by 1000, and so on.  This would be a 3:4 ratio.

If you choose to deselect this, as I have here, you can crop to more of a panoramic format. The top photo was 5616 by 3744.  This is similar to 4:3 ratio.  After cropping and resizing, by exporting to a smaller, more manageable size 2808 by 903.


San Diego Skyline
San Diego, CA, United States

Canon 5D Mark II
Focal Length 55
Aperture 20
Shutter 30 sec
ISO 1000

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