Compare the original and cropped versions of the same photo in
Figure 13-3.
FIGURE 13-3 The original photo (left) and its cropped version (right)
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If you decide not to crop the photo, click the Cancel button in the lower right corner of
the crop box, or just click a different tool in the toolbar, and then click Don??™t Crop when
Photoshop Elements asks if you want to crop the photo.
Fix the Exposure
Everyone has a stockpile of too-dark images. The flash didn??™t reach the subject or, perhaps, the
camera underexposed the subject because of a bright background. Back in the first part of the
book, I told you how to avoid those kinds of problems in the lens when you take the picture, but
you can also repair some of the damage in post-processing.
Now that you??™ve discarded the pixels you don??™t care about, it??™s easier for your photo editing
program to help you improve the exposure. The most precise and powerful way of correcting the
exposure in a photo is by using your photo editor??™s histogram control.
Understand the Histogram
Once you understand the point of a histogram, you??™ll find it??™s really easy to use. Don??™t worry:
histograms might look intimidating (they seem to remind people of high school math class), but
they actually aren??™t that complicated.
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