To Crop or Not to Crop: Photo Cropping for Scrapbookers

Crop Creatively: You can still have fun with photo shapes on your pages. Great tools and books are available to inspire your cropping creativity. Use these types of cropped photos sparingly and they will add fun surprise elements to your pages.

Quick Tip: When cropping creatively, I avoid using decorative scissors to cut photos. The fancy edge draws the eye away from the focus of the photo and becomes a distracting. Instead, use your scissors to cut mats for your photos from complimentary colors of cardstock. This creates a decorative edge without taking away from the photo itself.