Casey Liss

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...

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...

choosing the crop choosing the composition until you've done that to a few of your pictures and suddenly the exact same picture you haven't done anything to it all you've done is define the crop suddenly looks a lot better uh once you sort of get on that train uh it's hard not to notice it so yeah cropping it's an important part of editing and you should definitely do it and i would suggest making it one of the first things that you do

choosing the crop choosing the composition until you've done that to a few of your pictures and suddenly the exact same picture you haven't done anything to it all you've done is define the crop suddenly looks a lot better uh once you sort of get on that train uh it's hard not to notice it so yeah cropping it's an important part of editing and you should definitely do it and i would suggest making it one of the first things that you do

I think we've talked about this exact utility on the show in the past, but it should be noted that one of the things it does to speed itself up is not do the verification of everything. That's not the only thing it does to speed itself up. So it's worth looking. You can look at the source code and see it just uses, you know, Swift concurrency to try to do it in more parallel chunks.

I think we've talked about this exact utility on the show in the past, but it should be noted that one of the things it does to speed itself up is not do the verification of everything. That's not the only thing it does to speed itself up. So it's worth looking. You can look at the source code and see it just uses, you know, Swift concurrency to try to do it in more parallel chunks.

And you can totally peg all your CPU cores if you want to do this. But if you care about the checksumming, either don't use this tool or do a full checksum on the finished binary somehow and make sure it is what you expect.

And you can totally peg all your CPU cores if you want to do this. But if you care about the checksumming, either don't use this tool or do a full checksum on the finished binary somehow and make sure it is what you expect.

Yeah, I didn't even try this, but I wonder what kind of file extension. Is it just .aa? But anyway, yeah, if you're just staying within an Apple platform... And you want to, you know, if you really want to compress something quickly, you want to try doing parallel, try the AA tool.

Yeah, I didn't even try this, but I wonder what kind of file extension. Is it just .aa? But anyway, yeah, if you're just staying within an Apple platform... And you want to, you know, if you really want to compress something quickly, you want to try doing parallel, try the AA tool.