I make my final crops after all of the adjustments. Then I save it as a final image (uncropped). That way I can crop it to the desired size now, but can also crop it to a different size later if needed. It will save you somewhere down the road.
I've read that it's best to make the crop first, then your other changes. Something to do with the amount of light in the shot, the relative amount of light and dark bits, and how you want to adjust things.
I make my final crops after all of the adjustments. Then I save it as a final image (uncropped). That way I can crop it to the desired size now, but can also crop it to a different size later if needed. It will save you somewhere down the road.
You have an original uncropped picture, but somewhere out of the area of interest (crop) there is a very light spot, and a very dark spot. Looking at a histogram, you look and see the histogram going all the way to black, and all the way to white, technically perfect. You do all your other adjustments as well, contrast, color, the works.
Now you make your crop, and all of a sudden the histogram doesn't go from one end to the other anymore, or has significantly changed. Part of what you discarded when you cropped previously showed in your histogram, and was part of the 'data' you did all the post processing on.
As such, I crop first, and then do my adjustments, so I only work with the pixel data that I actually want to keep.
Hope this helps, otherwise just PM me.
XO,
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
You have an original uncropped picture, but somewhere out of the area of interest (crop) there is a very light spot, and a very dark spot. Looking at a histogram, you look and see the histogram going all the way to black, and all the way to white, technically perfect. You do all your other adjustments as well, contrast, color, the works.
Now you make your crop, and all of a sudden the histogram doesn't go from one end to the other anymore, or has significantly changed. Part of what you discarded when you cropped previously showed in your histogram, and was part of the 'data' you did all the post processing on.
As such, I crop first, and then do my adjustments, so I only work with the pixel data that I actually want to keep.
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I make my final crops after all of the adjustments. Then I save it as a final image (uncropped). That way I can crop it to the desired size now, but can also crop it to a different size later if needed. It will save you somewhere down the road.
Good luck.
Fred
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I keep the original file on back-up
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XO,
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Some times I get lucky and when that happens I show the results here: http://www.xo-studios.com
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You have an original uncropped picture, but somewhere out of the area of interest (crop) there is a very light spot, and a very dark spot. Looking at a histogram, you look and see the histogram going all the way to black, and all the way to white, technically perfect. You do all your other adjustments as well, contrast, color, the works.
Now you make your crop, and all of a sudden the histogram doesn't go from one end to the other anymore, or has significantly changed. Part of what you discarded when you cropped previously showed in your histogram, and was part of the 'data' you did all the post processing on.
As such, I crop first, and then do my adjustments, so I only work with the pixel data that I actually want to keep.
Hope this helps, otherwise just PM me.
XO,
Mark Twain
Some times I get lucky and when that happens I show the results here: http://www.xo-studios.com
Thanks Gary
The amount of difference is going to be shot dependent. Some will have no difference, yet others could have a lot.
Sam