Enjoy Editing your Digtal Photographs

In Digital photography, enhancement is very helpful to help you edit your pictures. Sometimes an original looks so bad, it appears as if nothing can be done to help it. Not true! A couple commonly used enhancements are angle correction of slanted pictures and barrel and pincushion correction. The angle correction basically defines itself in the title. If the picture is slightly titled then the angle correction enhancement will help it out quite a bit. One thing the tool needs to have is anti-aliasing. Barrel and pincushion correction is used to fix slanted horizons that were caused by the camera being used to zoom up as far is could go. These enhancements are used mainly for generally annoying changes that some people wouldn't even notice unless it was dramatic, but are useful nonetheless.

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.

When you are editing your images you are going to want to change the format and the size of the image altogether. There are two types of compressing images. One is the Lossy compressing style. This is more the conservative image compressor, it takes up the least space and is easily uploaded to the web or to an email program. Generally this will save in the .jpg format, one of the most commonly seen everywhere. Lossless on the other hand has the disadvantage of not being able to choose the size you want the image. However, you will be able keep a smaller image of the original version. Common to its name, lossless compressions do not lose any part of the image. The format this compression normally saves to is .png though it can save to a bmp or rle which are less common formats. In the end which one you choose is up to whether you don't care about the original image or you really care and don't want anything lost, your pic.

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.

Lets say you want to have 100 images changed, well you don't want to do that manually. What if you wanted to do multiple thing, like resize add border, then compress them? That is a tedious and time consuming task. Well good news to you, that won't be time you have to waste. They have these nifty things called batch processors. Sometimes you have to download them separately others come with your photo viewer. All that processing and time consuming image changing would be done however long your batch software would be able to do it with. But no matter how long it takes, you don't have to do it. All that you need to do is queue it up in the program with takes 15-20 minutes max press the run button and all your images are being run through, changed and put in a new directory of your choice ready to go. Anytime you don't have to spend messing around with images the better. Choosing a batch program is pretty easy there are dozens out there just make sure it has what you want it to do.

A handy tool to have if you don't intend to collect thousands of pictures is a digital photo album. This is handy because you can add descriptions and make sure you get a nice looking album for people to look at. This is different from a photo view because it actually stores all the photos no matter where they are located. The program will actually go and find all your photos. This would not be recommended if you have more than 2,000 photos because if a file gets corrupted you could lose all your pictures. An online viewer would actually be useful because then after you used a batch processor you could upload them all to the site and have just as nice of an album online. In the end it is up to you whether even want an album in the first place.

Lots of questions come in everyday about different types of batch software, and other image processes here are a couple: Q: My photos have EXIF data, but no "taken date", how can it be ? A: Basic information like the date, aperture, shutter speed etc should be written into the EXIF data of the photo by any camera. "Normally" differences between camera makes should only be with the "makernotes". Makernotes are mostly completely different with different makes.Nevertheless some cameras seem to save EXIF data without saving the "taken date". The user who did report the problem did send me one of his photos. While the other EXIF fields (camera name, aperture, shutter speed etc...) were present, the EXIF date fields were empty. The camera of the user is a Nikon Coolpix 880. Now I do not pretend that every Coolpix 880 shows the same problem. It may be one out of a given series, it may only be the Coolpix 880's sold in a specific Country, it may even be that some fake (and unperfect) Coolpix 880's have found their way to the market. Who knows? Q: I can't find any way of getting my digital camera to work on my pc. A: With most digital cameras you get a pc software. This software is intended to be used to get the photos onto the pc and to do some other tasks too.Indeed most of these programs are not very convenient and you can easily go without ever using them. Easy ways to acquire your photos (i.e. get the photos onto the computer) are described at PC camera software or how to by-pass them to acquire photos.

By: Dan Brown

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