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<blockquote data-quote="Fred Kingston_RIP" data-source="post: 799526" data-attributes="member: 10742"><p>I use Lightroom...The first consideration is &quot;how exactly the image is going to be used&quot; ??? Social media or printed????? If I'm &quot;printing&quot; I generally crop for 11X14 because that's the majority of what I print... In your image, I'd select the 11X14 aspect ratio and then select as much of the human to the left as possible... Most of stuff, ends up in landscape mode... but it's easy in LR to swap between Landscape and portrait simply by hitting the X key... and panning the image around inside the crop line for balance... This is all down FIRST before any other edits... Of course, LR is non-destructive, and RAW edits are easily &quot;reset&quot;... It's also easy enough to create copies in LR with different aspect ratios and crops... Better images may get 3, 4 or 5 copies with different crops before I settle on one... Sometimes, after letting an image &quot;age&quot; I'll even re-visit it for a totally different edit just because newer, better, editing processes become available that warrant a different view...&nbsp; My stuff keeps changing... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Fred Kingston_RIP, post: 799526, member: 10742"] I use Lightroom...The first consideration is "how exactly the image is going to be used" ??? Social media or printed????? If I'm "printing" I generally crop for 11X14 because that's the majority of what I print... In your image, I'd select the 11X14 aspect ratio and then select as much of the human to the left as possible... Most of stuff, ends up in landscape mode... but it's easy in LR to swap between Landscape and portrait simply by hitting the X key... and panning the image around inside the crop line for balance... This is all down FIRST before any other edits... Of course, LR is non-destructive, and RAW edits are easily "reset"... It's also easy enough to create copies in LR with different aspect ratios and crops... Better images may get 3, 4 or 5 copies with different crops before I settle on one... Sometimes, after letting an image "age" I'll even re-visit it for a totally different edit just because newer, better, editing processes become available that warrant a different view... My stuff keeps changing... :D [/QUOTE]

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