Editing

If your digital camera can record raw files, you can take advantage of higher bit depths when you edit your images. Bit depth refers to the number of colours that can be displayed by a digital device. The higher the bit depth, the more colours used in the image and, consequently, the larger the file size.

Cropping and resizing, brightness and contrast adjustments and some basic colour adjustments can be found in even the simplest image editing software. You will probably also find automated tools for correcting red eyes in flash shots and sharpening images. In this chapter we’ll look at how to use these tools and then move on to more sophisticated functions that can help everyday photographers to produce richer-looking prints from their digital photos.

In this article we’ll be looking at the most basic of editing processes: resizing. Images need to be resized when:

Most digital photographers have experimented with various panorama stitching techniques using either bundled software applications like Canon’s PhotoStitch or ArcSoft Panorama Maker, or the PhotoMerge tool in Adobe’s Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. These applications work well with images that can be overlapped seamlessly; shot sequences where nothing has moved between the shots.