In Tips 14 and 23 I discussed cropping. This article will describe how the crop tool in Capture NX2 can be used to your advantage. The tool has two modes Free and Fixed Aspect ratio.
In Free, anything goes. You choose the shape of the rectangular crop.
In Fixed Aspect mode, the proportions of the sides are kept constant. You can choose popular ratios or set your own.
You can set the sides the same and create a square crop.
You can create a cinematic aspect by setting the sides to a 16x9 ratio.
Cropping should no longer be a mystery.
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