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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 210759" data-attributes="member: 12496">Cropping is part of the process.  We cropped the dickens out of them in the dark room enlarger, back in the day.      It is about getting the picture you want.  Forgive my stupid example, but some artist might have the notion that using a number 2 pencil is the only way to draw.  It's what he learned, and he's done it for years.   He appreciates how it makes him work for it.  But now he discovers others are using <gasp> color, or ink, or water colors, or charcoal - and so are corrupting the purity of the art (in his notions).  So now, he is welcome to feel smug while everyone else is doing the art.Do what you want to do, it is your picture.  Actually, it is the result that counts.  Cropping is one of the best tools.</blockquote>