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How to Crop Photos for Social Media: Parents Edition

By Megan McChesney, Kids' CBC Staff
Photography by (top to bottom) Jan Mika, Iakov Filimonov, Martin Novak © 123RF.com 

May 25, 2016

Want to share more of your family on social media, but struggle to find moments worth sharing? Good news! You can turn any situation—no matter how awkward or unsavory—into a shareable and enviable moment for social media with some careful cropping. See below for examples!

What you share on social:

Photo of a woman smiling in a yard, her son's arms around her neck in a hug. Image is made to look like a social media share and the caption says

Real life:

A zoomed out image of the woman laughing with her son, but this time another son is in the image, crying.

What you share on social:

A social-media share image of a pot, some vegetables and meat. Caption says

Real life:

Zoomed out view of the image above, but this time a woman sits next to the pot with her head in her hands, exasperated.

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