On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Julian Hhhhhh <julian.hhh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > This is just a really fancy way of saying that these points are at the same > distance to two of the edges of the image. Not more. I do believe that this > might be a good guide, but it's pretty trivial that it will often look good > to place important things in an image at the same distance to, for example, > the left and the top edge. The reason why I would not include that is > because that is something that is very easy to check without any crazy > lines. Positioning something at equal distance to two borders is something > most people are able to judge with their eyes. Very precisely. > > Doesn't help that he cropped off the top of Mona Lisa, otherwise the line > goes through her nose. > > Just my opinion on this. > > Julian
I don't find it that easy to eyeball something to within 1.5 mm on A4 paper. Really I don't want to debate the fine points of it. I really feel and think that this is just as important as rule of thirds and we have that. The rule of thirds is also imperfect. I also think adding it would be very simple and not take up much room; perhaps I am mistaken? I have found it quite helpful in Digikam, more so than law of thirds. Why not add it? PS A bit off topic but I wanted to point out a book, on this theme, I just found, read and loved. Michael Freeman; The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos. (It does not talk about diagonals or rule of thirds BTW) -- Douglas E Knapp Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies with open source software! http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer: http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm Please link to me and trade links with me! Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project. http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/ _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers