Recortar cambia el encuadre.

Here recortar works like an action in general: cropping or to crop. In Spanish, the infinitive is often used this way, much like a noun.

So Recortar cambia el encuadre means something like:

• Cropping changes the framing
• To crop changes the framing

If you said Recorta, that would usually be a command: Crop!

Cambia is the third-person singular present form of cambiar (to change).

It agrees with recortar, which is being treated as a singular action or idea.

So literally:

• recortar = cropping / to crop
• cambia = changes

Together: Cropping changes...

In Spanish, it is very common to use the definite article with nouns where English might not.

So el encuadre means the framing or the composition/framing of the shot.

Spanish often sounds more natural with the article here:

• Recortar cambia el encuadre

Leaving out el would sound incomplete or unnatural in most normal contexts.

Encuadre is a photography, video, or visual composition term. It refers to the framing of an image or shot: what appears inside the frame and how it is arranged.

In this sentence, the idea is that if you crop an image, you change what is included in the frame, so you change the encuadre.

Depending on context, it could be understood as:

• framing
• composition
• shot framing

Not exactly.

• cortar = to cut
• recortar = to cut out, trim, or crop

In image editing, recortar is the usual verb for to crop a photo or image.

So in this context, recortar is the better choice, because it specifically suggests trimming the edges or selecting part of an image.

You can understand it that way, but in natural English, Cropping changes the framing sounds better.

A more natural comparison is:

• Spanish: Recortar cambia el encuadre
• Natural English: Cropping changes the framing

So yes, the literal structure helps you understand the grammar, but it is not the best final translation in English.

Because the subject is the whole action recortar, treated as one idea.

In Spanish, an infinitive used as the subject normally takes a singular verb:

• Fumar es malo. = Smoking is bad.
• Leer ayuda mucho. = Reading helps a lot.
• Recortar cambia el encuadre. = Cropping changes the framing.

So cambia is singular because recortar is functioning as one singular concept.

Yes, that is possible, but it is slightly different.

• Recortar cambia el encuadre = Cropping changes the framing
  Focus on the action/process.
• El recorte cambia el encuadre = The crop/cropping changes the framing
  Focus more on the crop itself or the result.

Both are understandable, but the original sentence emphasizes the action of cropping.

A little, but the original order is the most neutral and natural:

• Recortar cambia el encuadre.

You could rearrange parts in special contexts, but Spanish usually keeps this straightforward order: subject + verb + object

• Recortar = subject
• cambia = verb
• el encuadre = object

That makes it clear and natural.

In standard Spanish from Spain, encuadre is pronounced approximately:

en-KWA-dre

A rough breakdown:

• en like en in enter, but shorter
• cua sounds like kwa
• dre with a Spanish r, lighter than an English r

The stress falls on cua: en-CUA-dre

Yes, especially in contexts like:

• photography
• video
• film
• graphic design
• image editing

It sounds natural and correct. In a teaching or technical context, it is a very normal sentence for explaining how cropping affects an image.

Yes, but the meaning shifts slightly.

• el encuadre = the framing, what is inside the frame
• la composición = the overall visual arrangement of elements

Cropping can change both, so both sentences are possible. But encuadre is more specifically about the frame and what it includes, which fits cropping especially well.