In a composition, cropping photos might help to make the piece more cohesive. Some different ways to crop a photo are…
- Hard Crop : this is when you have four hard corners that are containing the image.
- Soft Crop : a feather gradient incorporates the image into the composition.
- Split Crop : divide a photo into two
- Stick Out Crop : mask a part of the photo (this help create depth)
- Knock Out : isolate the subject and remove the background
- False Crop: the photo is covered by another element creating a false crop
- Shape Crop : crop the photo into a shape