So what do you do when the photos that you want to highlight are not quite the right shape or size? Or what if the photo or image is not centered?
Placing these photos or images onto a page “as is” makes your page look unprofessional.
To get a professional looking scrapbook page, you may need to make some adjustments to carefully crop, resize or center your images or photos. Doing so will enhance both the look and feel of your scrapbook pages.
One option that crafters may choose to use to crop, resize or center images and photos is to simply use a cutting tool , like an Exacto knife or even a pair of scissors. They do this manually with these tools and straight edges.
Measure twice and cut once.
If you choose manually crop and cut pictures and images, make sure that you mark the outline you want with chalk or a light pencil mark before you cut.
Try using eyeshadow if you don’t have chalk.
Using the manual method you can also completely remove a distracting or cluttered background by cutting out the background and replace it with a with a new paper or fabric background. This allows the eye to focus on the people instead of the clutter behind them.
Now, there is also an electronic method of adjusting your photos and images. There are many computer programs that can not only crop, size and center your photo and image, it can manipulate color, brightness, hue and add special effects like changing the backgrounds. And the benefit is that you do not have to delete, ruin or alter the original photo or image!
