Scrapbook Photo Cropping?Crop Your Photos? Yes!A Scrapbooking Basic
But first a small warning about Scrapbook Photo Cropping: Don't ever crop your older photos that you can't replace. First, get them reproduced and crop the newer version. Don't crop off anything that may be pertinent to the photograph at a later date. Never cut the Polaroid photos as I understand they will eventually bleed the chemicals used in the development of those photos.
Lastly, you may want to crop strictly for artistic reasons. Cropping into different shapes, like stars or circles or flower shapes, or leaf shapes. Maybe crop the photo into a word. When I first started scrapbooking, I was horrified at the thought of cropping my photos. But I do it quite often now practically without even thinking about it.
Above: This is a tiny section of a photo that I took at the Aquarium and some of the individual fish were not in focus and there was a bit of reflection from the glass, but I didn't have another shot of this particular fish so I cut around it with scissors and mounted it directly to the page.
Above: This was the same idea, but this time I cut a photo matte, also by hand, with the scissors. The matte was a scrap I had left over from the same paper as the other mattes on the page. 
These two layouts above, use the various cropped images highlighted here, plus a couple of others. 
These two layouts above both have cropped photos. All of these photos were taken through the glass aquarium walls which sometimes creates a flash appearance. Other times, it's hard the get the fish to pose like you want them so you end up a lot of water and no fish which I just cropped off.
This layout above crops photos again. I had 4 photos of various Greek dancers at the Greek Festival. I sliced off the sky and stacked them one on top of another to squeeze them all on the layout. That program took up a lot of room but the photos of the various dances were important part of the festival. The layout is a busy one, with a lot of color and a lot of things going on, but was reflective of the event itself. Photos can be cropped by hand after they are developed with a photo trimmer, scissors or a craft knife. That is the method used on all of the examples here on this page. Photos can be cropped with any of your photo editing software that you may have received with your digital camera or larger software applications. This cropping is done prior to printing the photos. Some of the higher end digital cameras also allow cropping of photos while still in the camera. The page title photos of the Air Force, Navy and Marines were panoramic photos actually cut with a die cut machine, but this type of thing can also be done by hand. Go to Test Fitting Your Layout in the Quick Start Guide
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