Image Editing

When you present a picture to your intended audience, whether you plan to print the picture or display it on a Web page, you want that picture to be "the best image that it can be." Most images from the digital camera need a little help to attain that status. This is where the image editing software can help.

Below is a list of some items that may need fixing in a photograph that you may want to display.

1. Although hardly noticeable, almost all digital photos come from the camera just a little grayish. Compare the picture with the contrast adjusted just a little with the original, and you will notice that the adjust photo "pops."
2. Pictures of people and animals photographed with a flash often have a case of the "red eye." This is easily corrected in most image editing software.
3. Is your subject really one part of a larger picture? In this case the subject loses importance when it is lost among a lot of irrelevant details.
4. If you are going to upload your picture to the Web, you will need to reduce the size of the picture considerably from the size that most digital cameras are capable of producing. You'll want to save the original high resolution picture with a different name in case you want to print it later.
5. Image editing software can be among the most expensive software to buy, and for individuals with non-commercial applications, it can absolutely free!