The Dots in the Sky are Flying

You may recognize this photo from yesterday’s post. No? It’s the one with the plane in it.
What? You don’t see the plane? Okay, let me point it out for you.

Do you see it now? It’s the little dot (er, dash) in the middle of the circle.
Thus, you can see the “magic” of cropping (and enlarging). Without the cropping (or enlargement), it’s easy to overlook the plane in the sky.
Also, with cropping and/or enlarging, you can get multiple uses out of a single photograph.
Crop it from another corner, and there’s a storm brewin’…

Crop it from the opposite corner, and it’s a reasonably pleasant day.

Crop it in a different way and you have something suitable for something like a blog header.

You know, kind of like this:

So, there you have it! With the magic of cropping, enlargement and special effects (as mentioned in yesterday’s post) you can get multiple uses out of a single photograph.



Once while stretching a photo for my new blog header I pulled a tendon, and now just use the standard 400 / 640 px wide “square” ones
You do have to be careful. Like shuffleboard, Photoshop is not for the weak and cowardly!