Casey Liss

But to your eyes, that sheet of paper still looks white because you know it's white and your brain adjusts for it or whatever. And what True Tone is trying to do is say, hey, when you hold that piece of paper in the ambient light of the room up to your monitor, I want the white of that paper to match the white on the screen.

And to do that, it makes your screen yellowish to match the yellowish paper. The paper is yellowish because your yellowish light in the room is bouncing off the paper and going to your eyes. Your monitor is yellowish because the OS is making it produce yellow by mixing the red and the green subpixels, right? And so that's the goal of True Tone.

And to do that, it makes your screen yellowish to match the yellowish paper. The paper is yellowish because your yellowish light in the room is bouncing off the paper and going to your eyes. Your monitor is yellowish because the OS is making it produce yellow by mixing the red and the green subpixels, right? And so that's the goal of True Tone.

And it's subtle if your lighting is subtly warm or subtly cool. I bet it's not subtle if your lighting is not subtly warm or cool.

And it's subtle if your lighting is subtly warm or subtly cool. I bet it's not subtle if your lighting is not subtly warm or cool.

Yeah, this is something that came up and we've talked about in past episodes of photo editing, but we didn't mention it last time because in the Ask ATP question, we were all very much focused on like, what do you do when you're editing photos in terms of like exposure and all the fancy controls and Lightroom and photos or whatever.

Yeah, this is something that came up and we've talked about in past episodes of photo editing, but we didn't mention it last time because in the Ask ATP question, we were all very much focused on like, what do you do when you're editing photos in terms of like exposure and all the fancy controls and Lightroom and photos or whatever.

But it's worth reiterating because a lot of people brought it up and we talked about it in the past. Cropping is the very first thing I do with every single photo that I edit. And it's not an exciting form of editing because you're like, oh, I'm just changing the rectangle that defines the edges of the picture. Who cares?

But it's worth reiterating because a lot of people brought it up and we talked about it in the past. Cropping is the very first thing I do with every single photo that I edit. And it's not an exciting form of editing because you're like, oh, I'm just changing the rectangle that defines the edges of the picture. Who cares?

I mean, it maybe gets a little more exciting with the advent of AI background extensions and stuff. But either way, cropping is the first thing that I do. And every photo that I edit, I crop. Like, I can't remember the last time I edited a photo and said, you know what? I don't need to change it at all.

I mean, it maybe gets a little more exciting with the advent of AI background extensions and stuff. But either way, cropping is the first thing that I do. And every photo that I edit, I crop. Like, I can't remember the last time I edited a photo and said, you know what? I don't need to change it at all.

Part of taking pictures and learning from the editing experience is knowing, ooh, if I had left a little bit more margin around the edges, I could frame this the way I wanted. It's better to have a little bit of extra background as long as you've got enough pixels of resolution.

Part of taking pictures and learning from the editing experience is knowing, ooh, if I had left a little bit more margin around the edges, I could frame this the way I wanted. It's better to have a little bit of extra background as long as you've got enough pixels of resolution.

It's better to have a little bit more extra background than it is to be missing that background because AI background extensions aside, it still is kind of difficult to expand the image where you want it. But you can always crop in a little bit. And what are you doing when you're cropping? You're trying to compose the picture. You're trying to compose it when you take it too.

It's better to have a little bit more extra background than it is to be missing that background because AI background extensions aside, it still is kind of difficult to expand the image where you want it. But you can always crop in a little bit. And what are you doing when you're cropping? You're trying to compose the picture. You're trying to compose it when you take it too.

But it's often more important to get the shot, get the moment when the person is smiling, get the bird flapping its wings or whatever, and then worry about the cropping later versus I'm not going to take the picture until it's perfectly composed in my viewfinder because then you'll miss the shot a lot

But it's often more important to get the shot, get the moment when the person is smiling, get the bird flapping its wings or whatever, and then worry about the cropping later versus I'm not going to take the picture until it's perfectly composed in my viewfinder because then you'll miss the shot a lot

of the time so i always try to leave a little bit extra and the very first thing i do is crop and i'm cropping to try to make a nice composition or try to make the composition i was trying to get in the camera but the camera was tilted or you know and this i guess this is involved in cropping to like straighten the horizon line and stuff if you want to um

of the time so i always try to leave a little bit extra and the very first thing i do is crop and i'm cropping to try to make a nice composition or try to make the composition i was trying to get in the camera but the camera was tilted or you know and this i guess this is involved in cropping to like straighten the horizon line and stuff if you want to um

Or I didn't quite get it framed the way I wanted, but I have enough of the background that I can crop it. If you do no editing except for cropping, you will get better at taking pictures. Your pictures will look, quote unquote, look better. You're like, I didn't do anything to it. All I did was change the edge. They will look better. You don't realize how much of a good picture is...