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Offline John_Gill

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Crop and process or process and crop ...
« on: 2020 February 21 04:48:16 »
Hi,

Is it better to crop the image and then process or process the image and then crop?

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Offline Geoff

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Re: Crop and process or process and crop ...
« Reply #1 on: 2020 February 21 18:13:58 »
I think the answer is “It depends”. If you are cropping to get rid of bad  borders then I think crop first. However if the whole image is ok then I would delay cropping. The processed picture may lead you to a different crop than the unprocessed one.
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Offline dave_galera

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Re: Crop and process or process and crop ...
« Reply #2 on: 2020 February 22 06:10:38 »
I would go along with Geoff, it is what I do, I always crop first to clean up the borders only......
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