![]() I just thought that having a grid would allow you to very easily see if in a particular photo, a rule of thirds composition would be a good starting point for your final crop. Rest assured, I don't sit in front of my monitor with a ruler to measure my cropsĪnd indeed, it is a great feature of digital that you can always go back and re-crop. I do all my cropping based on what I think looks best. ![]() To the others: of course I understand that these rules are just guidelines and sometimes don't work at all. Thanks Robert, for addressing the question. ![]() what do you think this is, a public forum? I've never tried to get it to do the "1/3" style, but am unaware if it has it. The only grid I can think of is the "grid" which places a gird over the whole image. While your answers are on track (saying to use them as rules that you can break), they aren't answering his question.Īs far as I know, there's not. one decides what works by trying.Īll of these replies, and not a single person answered the question, just poked at him for wanting to know. Sometimes having an image dead center or at 1/3 is wonderful, sometimes it's terrible. You can make as many crops as you like and experiment with what you like best. I would add that this is a good example of where digital is so nice. by picking what YOU think is right, now what others think), than photography is going to be a tough hobby or profession for you I imagine. If you can't do that, and you can't decide what YOU think is visually appealing (that's how you develop a style. Not trying to be rude, but seeing roughly where 1/3 is is pretty easy. because you should crop based on what you think fits the image, not based on putting something at a 1/3 mark. It's not about strictly applying the "rule of thirds." I think there's very little reason to have rule of thirds markings. It's about finding a pleasing, moving, telling, or narrative composition for your image. Just go with whatever you feel looks best. Knowing these compositional 'rules' is an important aspect of all forms of art - as is knowing when to break them. And don't forget, the so called 'rule of thirds' is only an approximation of well known compositional tricks dating back centuries - search for 'golden mean' or 'golden section'. What's wrong with using your eye? Using gridlines is the photographic equivalent of painting by numbers. Perhaps someone more familiar with the software knows if this is possible? It seems that this would be a very useful tool when cropping (especially if the grid resized with the cropping box, as opposed to just be displayed on the 100% view image). Just wondering if it is possible to display a "rule of thirds" grid in DPP? I do all my cropping of raw files in DPP and having a rule of thirds grid sure would help with composition when cropping.
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