Don’t want the rubbish bin in the picture

Being able to manipulate photographs on your computer saves you the expense of a dark-room and requiring a lot of skill in photography.

The most common manipulation (thing you can do with digital photographs) is to create a new digital image from the original so that your subject fills the picture. That is, you wish to remove a lot of the background or unrelated subject matter.

My first steps at macro photography are not going to pass muster with professionals, but it doesn’t matter as the purpose of having the picture is not to include it in any print publication of garden plants, but as a personal record that the Frangipani cutting that Ethel gave me is starting to do its thing. Actually, all of the pieces of Frangipani have started to grow much to my amusement as I had this notion that if one survived I would be happy.

Find on your computer the application or programme that allows you to do things with images. At last count, I had three such applications that would do the job, but decided on the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).

I don’t want the photo to include a lot of the Frangipani branches or the fence, which are out of focus anyway.

Remember select, then, do?

Select that part of the photograph that you wish to keep, in this case a budding Frangipani branch.

Find an option to crop that part of the photograph.

Then remember to save this new digital photograph. Note: It is probably a good idea to save your new image with a different name to that of the original. Digital cameras have silly number schemes for names anyway. I called my cropped digital photograph frangipani051118.jpg to include the subject and the date.