Center vs Content-Aware Cropping in Go: 3 Paths for Avatars and Dishes
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The page usually fires after the damage is already visible: a recipe avatar has a forehead missing, or the plated dish is clipped at the rim. The on-call sees a spike in manual crop edits and a drop in image-acceptance events, then has to decide whether the cropper or the source image is at fault. Short answer: use a center crop only when the subject is deliberately centered and a repeatable box matters more than coverage. For faces and dishes, content-aware cropping is the better default becau