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How tightly can you crop your digital photos and still get great results when you enlarge them?

How tightly can you crop your digital photos and still get great results when you enlarge them?



We spoke with staff photographer John B. Carnett to get to the bottom of this not-so-simple question. Carnett says that it really depends on what you plan to do with the image. Great results for one person might be a grainy image, but one blown up large enough to cover a gaping hole in a bedroom wall. Others demand images that look just like the real thing.

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