Cool Ways To Edit Your Digital Photos
Its hard to accept sometimes, but let’s face itnot every photo that we take is perfect. Thanks to digital technology, we can now transfer our photos from our cameras to our computers and with a bit of creativity and digital editing we can make our pictures look almost professional. Through enhancements we can repair many errors such as the sharpness enhancement improving the quality on a fuzzy picture.
While almost every editor has a sharpness adjustment, most of them are not top notch in their results. The best ones incorporate internal algorithms to help enhance the photo. A blurry photos or one with fuzzy borders and lines can be greatly improved upon.
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.
With resizing some of the pixels will be removed when reducing an image resulting in some lines of the photo disappearing. Re-sampling however uses algorithms to determine the new size of the pixels. When re-sampling to a larger size, color will be added as a result of interpolation. When reducing an image through re-sampling, the actual pixels will be re-calculated. A good image editor will have multiple algorithms for resizing and re-sampling options.
Another popular question for people is how to convert photo files to get smaller pictures. This process is beneficial if you want to send photos over the internet. You can do this in two ways known as the lossless and lossy formats. Basically, one of these two methods can be used to create a smaller nearly untouched photo. Lossless means that the image appears the same as it was originally only smaller, but only to a certain degree. The drawback is that the final image may still be too big but it is completely unchanged. The most common form it is saved in is .png.
On the downside the image may still be larger than desired, but the image will be entirely unchanged. Lossy formats however will lose some information. The advantage in this format is that you can pick the size for the end result. Lossy format most common form is .jpg. This will generate small photos that can be uploaded easily. Both formats have their ups and downs. You have to decide if you want a smaller original or can you sacrifice some of the photograph to make it as small as you want.
Along with the importance of editing photos comes the importance of viewing your images. In order to easily access your photos your photo viewer should be able to be customized, easy to use, have printable contact sheets, photo enhancement tools, convenient for getting the pictures, be able to manage EXIF data and be able to batch process images.
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.
