The Editor offers the Crop and Rotate tool too. These tools look and work the same in both modules. It’s faster, and you don’t have to export the photo afterwards. When you need to make a permanent crop to an already-developed photo, use the Editor module. For fine-tuning and/or more precise straightening, you can use the Rotation slider in the right panel. Just click outside of of the selection frame and rotate the picture with the mouse. Make use of it when a photo needs to be straightened. This tool’s ability to rotate a photo also has its role in adjusting composition. To get the best results when you’re using a crop to fine-tune composition, set the cropping marks to Golden Ratio or Thirds. And that will let you precisely adjust your final composition. Your choices for the marks are:Ĭhoosing well here will make your photo cropping absolutely precise. In the right panel, you both set the ratio of sides for the crop (which can be the current ratio, various preset ratios, or also any ratio you want) and choose cropping marks. Then click and drag in the photo to set the area crop. Make cropping one of your first edits in Develop.įirst activate the Rotate and Crop (C) tool. You’ll mainly make use of it when editing photos that you shot to RAW. Until you export the picture after you’re done, your crop is just a temporary edit that’s only visible in Zoner Photo Studio.īecause of this, you’ll only really want to use cropping in Develop if you don’t want to overwrite the original photo. In the Develop module, you’re working with non-destructive edits. It works nearly the same in both of them, but its use in practice differs. You’ll find exactly that in the Crop and Rotate tool (C) available in Zoner Photo Studio, inside the Develop and Editor modules.
So it’s good to have quick access to a few common ratios of sides for cropping, plus the ability to add more. Meanwhile these ratios differ for different paper formats… and differ even more among websites. And the same goes for the big photo websites. And that can be essential when you’re printing.Ī sheet of paper has just one specific ratio of width to height, and if you ignore it, your printer will do a blind, automatic crop in your name, and so your photo prints may not look very good. Besides improving composition, you can also use cropping to give a photo a precise ratio of sides.
Or taking your first step towards prints.
Improving composition and removing distractions from a picture’s edges.