Editing

With the proliferation of social websites where people upload images for sharing, the ownership and re-use of digital pictures has become an important issue for photographers at all levels. When you publish a digital photo on a website – or provide it on a disk to a friend or customer – it’s wise to protect that image against illegal copying.

Photographers may invest a lot of money in lenses that produce sharp images, but they often fail to capitalise on their investment by not applying sharpening post-capture.

Photographers may invest a lot of money in lenses that produce sharp images, but they often fail to capitalise on their investment by not applying sharpening post-capture.

If you’ve used a compact digicam to take digital photos in dim lighting with high ISO settings, your shots will probably be noise-affected. And, even if you’ve used a digital SLR camera, you may find it’s almost as noise prone with long exposures, regardless of the sensitivity setting. To complicate matters, JPEG compression-related artefacts can cause image noise to be more visible, making otherwise great shots unprintable.

Black and white photographs taken with infrared film have a distinct character that immediately distinguishes them from regular B&W photographs. With the progressive demise of traditional film (particularly B&W emulsions), it’s good that we can simulate the infrared look in modern editing software.