The Crop Tool

The crop tool is absolutely the first tool I use in almost any situation. I look at the overall composition of the photograph, and I crop out any parts that are not necessary. It also helps to reduce the size of the image. If you use a 16 megapixel camera like myself, this comes in very handy. Also, it depends on the composition, but you should usually save a non-cropped version of every photo just in case. Latter, I will give more detailed examples about how I look at a composition.