Changing the sizes of image files is one of the most common software-based tasks in digital photography. Regardless of the type of digital camera you own, there will be times when the files it produces have to be resized for either printing or emailing. The process is simple, and can be done with virtually any editing application. It allows you to match the image parameters to the way the image will be viewed, so you can share your photos more effectively. It can also save you both time and money when you want to have prints made at a lab.
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Removing Unwanted People from Holiday Photos
In the summer many photographers set off to visit iconic places. Often these are once-in-a-lifetime trips where you would like to take pictures without hordes of other tourists getting in the way.
Recommended Photographic Software
We’re constantly on the lookout for great new digital imaging tools. Every week we spend hours searching the Internet for genuinely useful software that helps photographers to scan, organise, edit and print their pictures. Below is a list of our favourites.
Recovering Lost Image Files
What can you do in cases of accidental file deletion or card failure?
Protect Your Digital Images Against Copying
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.
Online Tools for File Conversion and Batch Processing
After facing a tricky file conversion and batch processing challenge, our editor set off into the wilds of the web to find a few useful solutions.
Online photo editors
No Faux Modesty
Non-destructive Sharpening with a Popular Freeware Editor
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.
Non-destructive Sharpening with Popular Freeware Editor The Gimp
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.
Minimise Noise with Photoshop CS2
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.