AboutSteve Meltzer Expertise I am a professional photographer and I've been shooting for newspapers, magazines, commercial clients and artists for over 30 years.
I have shot stock photography for dozens of years and in 1977 created West Stock (Seattle, WA) which was one of the first to produce stock photo CDs and later one of the first to establish an online stock photo slaes site.
I have a new book on digital photography "PHOTOGRAPHING ARTS, CRAFTS AND COLLECTIBLES (Lark Books, 2007)which is available at Amazon.com, eBay.com and in bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders. I have another book, CAPTURE THE LIGHT which will be puiblished in November, 2008.
I write 20-30 feature articles and columns for regional and national publications a year.
My education includes studying with photographers like Cornell Capa, Duane Michels and Oliver Gagliani (from the Ansel Adams Center.)
Expert: Steve Meltzer Date: 3/11/2007 Subject: digital croppping
Question Hi Steve,
Hi Mark,
This is a great service. Thanks for your willingness to share your expertise.
Can you recommend some photo editing software that will let me resize a photo without distortion and then crop it in the shape of a circle?
Also, any suggestions you have on this process would be much appreciated.
Answer Mark
Corel Paint Shop Pro XI and Adobre Photoshop Elements 5.0 are both standard editing programs that will resize and allow you to crop etc. Each costs about $100 but I believe you can download a version of Paint Shop Pro from the Corel website (www.corel.com???) on a trial basis and then buy it if you like the way it works.
