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Robin Nichols
Robin Nichols
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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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Move & Scale Object feature

It's not often that you get to experience a complex, automated photo-editing feature that's really exciting, but this is one of those times. In Guided Edit mode, under Basics, you'll find Move & Scale Object.

As the somewhat ambitious name might suggest, this is a copy-and-paste operation on steroids. But in my experience, it only really works effectively on simple images—the process of identifying the main subject and selecting it cleanly using one of two selection tools, then copy-and-pasting it elsewhere in the image, is both a complex operation and one that's fraught with potential editing problems. That said, I chose this simple shot of a woman photographing the pyramids in Egypt as an example. This feature is easy to use—just follow the onscreen instructions!

Photo manipulation woes

In 1982, the National Geographic Magazine got into hot water—the editors liked...

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Robin Nichols

Born in the UK, Robin Nichols has always had a great love for recording the world with a camera. After finishing school, he studied fine art, before moving on to study at Nottingham Trent University, where he gained a degree in creative photography. He subsequently worked in the advertising industry for several years, before emigrating to Australia in 1985. Robin has always worked in photography: as a black and white printer, a cameraman, a stock photographer, and a freelance photographer. During the 1990s, Robin contributed to several photo-centric publications in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK.
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