Watch These Cool Ways To Edit Your Digital Photos
When people take digital images and put them on their computers, the pictures are generally not perfect.
This is where enhancements come in, they will make it so your picture looks almost professional.
One enhancement that is used often is the sharpness enhancement.
The sharpness enhancement is extremely helpful.
Basically it improves the quality on a fuzzy picture.
Almost every editor has the sharpness too, sadly most of them aren't the best.
The best ones use algorithms internally to help with the enhancement of the photo.
This tool is extremely useful for blurry pictures or one with fuzzy lines and borders.
Today, one of the most commonly used tools is resizing a photograph.
What is less heard of is re-sampling.
What is the difference? Well resizing is just changing the pixels, while resample is using an actual algorithm to fix the picture so that is appears not blurry, fuzzy, blocked when it is changed.
With resizing to enlarge a picture some of the pixels will be doubled.
While with resizing, reducing an image some of the pixels will be thrown out; this why some lines of the photo just disappear.
Re-sampling on the contrary, uses algorithms to decide the new size of the pixels, during an enlargement color will be added as a result of interpolation.
While reducing an image the actual pixels will be re-calculated.
A good image editor will include multiple algorithms for re-sampling and resizing options.
Big question for everyone is how to convert photo files in order to get smaller pictures.
This is really helpful if you want to send photo files over the internet.
There are two ways to do this: the lossless and the lossy formats.
Lossless means that the image stays exactly the same as it was originally.
Basically different methods are applied to get a smaller but virtually untouched photo.
The most common format that photo software can hand is .
png.
The disadvantage is the image can still end up too big, but the image will be completely unchanged.
Lossy formats will actually lose some information.
The advantage to this way is you will be able to pick the size you want it to end up in.
The common form it is saved in is a .
jpg.
This will create small photos that will upload places quite easily.
There are the ups and downs for both of these forms, basically do you want a smaller original or do you mind some of the photo being lost in order to make it really small.
Viewing images is just as important as editing them.
In order to easily access your images your photo viewer should be able to be customized, easily to use, have photo enhancement tools, printable contact sheets, convenient for attaining pictures, be able manage EXIF data and be able to batch process images.
Some good ones are Zoner Photo Stuido which is quite user friendly.
Another is Photophilia which is extremely adjustable and able to batch process.
Selecting a photo viewer is important, depending on what kind of computer user you are you can select a viewer that is quick and easy or complicated but has some great functions.
Some handy functions are: slide show, batch processor, editor functions, and zoom factor.
This is where enhancements come in, they will make it so your picture looks almost professional.
One enhancement that is used often is the sharpness enhancement.
The sharpness enhancement is extremely helpful.
Basically it improves the quality on a fuzzy picture.
Almost every editor has the sharpness too, sadly most of them aren't the best.
The best ones use algorithms internally to help with the enhancement of the photo.
This tool is extremely useful for blurry pictures or one with fuzzy lines and borders.
Today, one of the most commonly used tools is resizing a photograph.
What is less heard of is re-sampling.
What is the difference? Well resizing is just changing the pixels, while resample is using an actual algorithm to fix the picture so that is appears not blurry, fuzzy, blocked when it is changed.
With resizing to enlarge a picture some of the pixels will be doubled.
While with resizing, reducing an image some of the pixels will be thrown out; this why some lines of the photo just disappear.
Re-sampling on the contrary, uses algorithms to decide the new size of the pixels, during an enlargement color will be added as a result of interpolation.
While reducing an image the actual pixels will be re-calculated.
A good image editor will include multiple algorithms for re-sampling and resizing options.
Big question for everyone is how to convert photo files in order to get smaller pictures.
This is really helpful if you want to send photo files over the internet.
There are two ways to do this: the lossless and the lossy formats.
Lossless means that the image stays exactly the same as it was originally.
Basically different methods are applied to get a smaller but virtually untouched photo.
The most common format that photo software can hand is .
png.
The disadvantage is the image can still end up too big, but the image will be completely unchanged.
Lossy formats will actually lose some information.
The advantage to this way is you will be able to pick the size you want it to end up in.
The common form it is saved in is a .
jpg.
This will create small photos that will upload places quite easily.
There are the ups and downs for both of these forms, basically do you want a smaller original or do you mind some of the photo being lost in order to make it really small.
Viewing images is just as important as editing them.
In order to easily access your images your photo viewer should be able to be customized, easily to use, have photo enhancement tools, printable contact sheets, convenient for attaining pictures, be able manage EXIF data and be able to batch process images.
Some good ones are Zoner Photo Stuido which is quite user friendly.
Another is Photophilia which is extremely adjustable and able to batch process.
Selecting a photo viewer is important, depending on what kind of computer user you are you can select a viewer that is quick and easy or complicated but has some great functions.
Some handy functions are: slide show, batch processor, editor functions, and zoom factor.
