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There are more rules in artwork then there are in baseball. One of them is the Rule of Thirds. The Rule of Thirds simply helps artists who avoid having symmetry in their artwork. Now there's nothing wrong with symmetry but its not as visually interesting as having something slightly off kilter, everything in nature is asymmetrical, so we're used to seeing it whether you want to admit it or not, one ear is bigger then the other. Sorry about. Now what I'm going to do is show you the difference between having something that's pretty much in the center like this bridge, car and this strip in the road as opposed to having it more interestingly cropped by using the Rule of Thirds. Now I'm going to hit the Tab Key on my keyboard and I'm going to just zoom in a little bit so we can just study this composition of this image. I took this in New Jersey and as you can see its an interesting picture but it would look more powerful if we could bring this tree and this part of the image a little bit more in focus as the car is about turn in this direction. Currently everything is pretty much in the center, the hole of the bridge or the entrance or exit depending on which part of the tunnel you're in and of course we have the trees and everything pretty much taking up the same amount of space on both sides. So visually it's not very interesting. Let me zoom out a little bit and I'm going to now go to this little Icon right here which is our Divine Proportion, I'll hold my mouse down and I'll go to this guy right here. This is our Grid for our Rule of Thirds and what I'm going to do now is with this selected I have to click on the Eyeball to invoke it. This will help you to see the image more in an analytical fashion as opposed to how we did it before without having a grid there. You can now see that we have three distinct parts of this image. We have this very strong part of the image with this dark silhouette of this tree and also this dark entrance or exit once again to the little bridge there. So what we can do is grab our Crop Tool and then using the Rule of Thirds try to find a stronger composition for this picture. So I'm going to click and I'm going to mov my image over a little bit and turn the Grid off and hopefully you can see how more visually interesting this looks already. Now the tree helps to tell the story, it helps to frame everything by pushing everything this way and we have the dirt over here and we have the less on this side. Whereas before we had pretty much the same amount of space taken up by dirt and grass here, the same here and the hole was right in the middle, just boring actually. So hopefully this will help you out when you take images, but don't worry, as you can see you can always crop them. So the Rule of Thirds will help you to prevent what a lot of beginning artists start to do when they draw and you can test this out. It's really funny actually, you can give it to someone and say draw a house, chances are good when they draw a house their going to put a door right in the middle, one window to the left, one window to the right, a roof and a chimney and everything will be right in the middle of that page. Because to the untrained eye or to the untrained artist they think that everything should be perfect. You know everything should have the same amount of detail on both sides of the page. So once again Rule of Thirds will help you to create more stunning and compelling compositions whether you're painting or whether you're taking photographs and then when you bring them into Painter you'll be able to create much more appealing artwork.