Skitch

Have you ever squinted at a photo because you can’t really make out the details of the image? Or maybe you just want to see more detail from a small part of the image in question… Well, in many cases Skitch can help you with that.

Let’s say that you have a photo of the ocean surf, and you want to see a close up of one section of the breakers…

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

STEP 1
Click, then drag and drop the image into the Skitch application. You can do this with an image on your local hard drive, or pull photos off of a website.

(be respectful of all copyrights  - please don’t steal images for your own use)

STEP 2
Grab any corner of the Skitch application window and resize the image so the detail(what  you want to see more of) is large enough for your needs.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

STEP 3
Grab any of the edges of the image and crop the image down to size, leaving only that part of the image which you are interested in.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

After you complete your resizing and cropping you should end up with a final image showing exactly what you wanted to see more details of.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

Total time elapsed to create the final image? About 10 seconds.

Skitch is amazingly fast at virtually any image edit you want to make.

Your results may vary, based on the quality of the original image you begin with and the amount of zoom you apply . To be fair, the image above was created as a PNG from a master photo that was shot in RAW format. This enabled me to zoom as much as possible, up to a point where you can begin to see the ‘grain’ of the photo. I used this image in order to show you an extreme example of zooming, but this technique will work with virtually any image type.

Do you have a nifty Skitch tip to share? Please leave a comment!

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