1. Explain the purpose of cropping and local adjustments
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Cropping and Local Adjustments
Learn to refine composition and guide attention without over-editing.
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What you will learn
2. Apply a practical method to refine composition and guide attention without over-editing
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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk
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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement
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Step-by-step practice
Step 1. Identify why cropping and local adjustments matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to refine composition and guide attention without over-editing.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Create one crop and two local adjustments, then compare against the original.
Safe and responsible practice: Keep untouched originals, document significant edits and confirm rights before publishing.
Practical activity
Complete and record this task
Create one crop and two local adjustments, then compare against the original.
Good-practice checklist
Original files remain untouched
Export settings match the destination
Complete the practical activity for cropping and local adjustments
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant
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