Crop and process or process and crop ...

[John_Gill]

Hi,

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

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John

 

[Ghsmith45]

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.

 

[dave_galera]

I would go along with Geoff, it is what I do, I always crop first to clean up the borders only......