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[CarrieG]

I _________________ to crop photos........

[Melissa S.]

I try not to crop photos too much anymore and leave some background stuff in there to get a sense of what's around them.  I love looking at that stuff in pictures of me when I was younger.

[QuellieT]

Almost never! I look at these LO's in the gallery with tiny photos, and I love the LOs but I love my big photos.

[Flasher]

I usually have to crop photos.  As an 8.5 x 11 scrapper, I find that in order to get more than two pics on a page, I've got to crop.  But, I don't crop if I think the background or scenery adds to the photo just to make it fit on the page.

[blbabe1234]

usually crop them. I mean, if I'm going for a smaller photo paired with some larger ones and I want the "distraction" out of the way (a chair, a foot, etc).

[christinec68]

I sometimes crop photos.  Mostly to make it fit on a mat or cut out something distracting. 

I've been resizing pictures more lately so I have smaller pictures while keeping the details.  

[DolphinSoul]

Almost Always. I am a huge multi-photo layout person. Now if I blow up photos, I rarely ever crop them, but just depends!

[beachlover]

don't like to

[citygirl22]

I rarely crop my photos. I get them printed in whatever size I want to use and then scrap them as-is. The only time I crop down a 4x6 photo is if it's an older photo and I have to manually crop out busy, distracting things in the background.

[emmapaige]

I sometimes crop photos, usually when a sketch calls for certain sized photos.  I especially like to crop photos of me so I can cut off half of me to make me look skinnier!  LOL!!!!

[cajenkins81]

I like to crop photos. But in the past few months I've started printing 3x4 pics and that helps a lot with not needing to crop for size and space. But I will still crop pics to a desired size for a design element, or on larger photos to get rid of some of the distracting background etc. I used to crop pictures all willy-nilly without correct measurements and it used to be so confounding to me how people got neat looking pages with pics all the same size, cause how in the world do you do that?! lol. I've learned a lot and I've come a long way. I used to crop just each picture based on the pic alone, but some pics were taken farther away etc., so cropping was always off and never consistent, which doesn't make for a very pretty design on the page. Again, I've learned a lot, and crop much better now with general measurements. 

[redsonic20]

occasionally.  I find myself using full 4x6's a lot more lately, but sometimes they need to be cropped.  Anytime a 3x4 is needed, I'm going to try and use my selphy.  The problem is that it doesn't work wirelessly with Windows 8, so I'll have to email the photos to myself and do all the work on my phone which is a pain in the butt.  However, I wanted the selphy MOSTLY for phone photos anyway so hopefully it won't be too too bad.

[Ayla]

I often crop photos, but that's the fun of the digital world, because I maintain the photo in its original condition as well. I may crop to get rid of something in the background I want, or to highlight something in the photo, or so simply make my layout work the way I want it to. But if I don't like it, I can always change it back!

[blfonty]

I usually crop some of my photos in a layout. Making them fit together or highlight the focus of the photo as I'm quite often adding lots of photos to a layout. When I do one- or two-photo layouts, it depends on the sketch or SL design.

[Wheeliegirl]

I often crop photos.

[sweetsour]

USUALLY crop photos, but make sure I have a digital or hard copy 1st

[pawprints]

I almost always crop photos, but being that I print all my own photos, I always leave the originals intact.

[Sara Scraps]

I almost always crop photos.. In fact, sometimes I will take a step or two back and intentionally put more background into a photo so I can develop them as a 4X6 and crop them smaller. The only time I don't crop is if I am doing a layout with only 1 picture or if I am doing a 5X7 or 8X10 portrait...and even then I will trim a little sometimes 

[PezKat]

love!

[kate W.]

I almost always crop my photos. I used to crop them on the computer before printing them out. I found that this left nothing to crop off if I needed smaller photos for a specific LO. Plus, when I cropped my photos on the computer I found when I went to print them that I had often cropped too much and the photos printed out really blurry. So now I wait to crop out unwanted background until after I print them. And yes, I have also been known to crop certain pics of myself a certain way so as to make myself appear thinner. Hey, a Girl's gotta do what a girls gotta do!