✂️ Crop It

$ man crop-it

Drag the 3:2 frame over the scene — grab the middle to move it, a corner (or a two-finger pinch) to resize — then cut it to score. The four bars under the picture move as you drag, so you can feel each guideline responding instead of learning it one post-mortem at a time. Three scenes per round; tap the picture during a reveal for the next scene.

Keys: arrows nudge the frame (hold shift for bigger steps), + / − resize, enter or space cuts, backspace (or u) undoes a cut on scenes 1–2.

Scored against classic guidelines: subject on a thirds crossing (one of the four points where the third-lines cross), horizon on a third, clear space in front of whatever the subject is looking at — painters call that lead room, and anything parked in it counts against you — and nothing clipped. Clipping fades rather than falling off a cliff, so shaving a sliver is a sliver's penalty. Composition has taste in it — this measures the guidelines, not genius.

The whole silhouette counts as the subject — including the lighthouse's beam, which is why slicing it reads as a clipped subject.

Studio tip: crop the story, not the object — where the subject looks matters more than where it stands.