I mean this for advanced editing, of course.
First, background editing and removal. That is... not a large amount of background, but bits of background that are visible from behind the subject and seen in small bits around the edges. For example, say I have a kitten picture that I want to enter . I crop around the kitten's head, but you can (somewhat clearly) see a bit of the room around the very edges of the blanket it's sitting on. It can't be avoided, because of the shape of the kitten's head; I want to blend the blanket colour over the background, so it looks like a portrait instead of a snapshot taken by chance. Does this constitute removal of a major part of the picture, even though the background pieces are secondary and hard to discern? This is something I've wondered for awhile, and I've shied away from using the pictures I really liked for several challenges... just in case.
Secondly, canvas resizing. If a background is a pure colour of some sort, is it legal to add more matching negative space (say, to center an isolated subject or to make the photo square). If so, is it legal in basic editing? |
