In the past, you take your photos with your faithful old Brownie, removed the film cartridge, and it dropped off at the pharmacy for development. After about a week, you pick up your prints. What you got is exactly what the film was exposed. No culture, no sharpness, contrast or brightness adjustments were available, unless you had your own movie studio processing and printing.
With the advent of digital photography, it became possible for everyone to learn and successfully photo editing. There is a plethora of digital photography software that allow different levels of image manipulation. With a decent digital camera, a computer with a printer quality, and one of the many versions of photo editing software, you can produce wonderful pictures. You can crop for bringing the views of your question, darken or lighten exposure, the contrast, sharpness of the image, change it to black and white, sepia or gray levels.
Add a scanner and you can change your old standard photographs. Who faded old photograph you as a child can be brought back to life with a few clicks of your mouse. With software, you can place objects in a photograph in another. Create a collage of any person containing their photos, from birth to present. Beautiful old Ford that you took a photo during the cruise back fond memories?
You just insert into the photo standing proudly next to the car of your dreams. Photo editing not only provides you with beautiful memories of the people and places of your life; It can provide hours of fun and entertainment. Children squeal and giggle with delight to be placed in unknown locations and exciting.
One of the most recognized and used for photo editing programs is Adobe Photoshop. From this software, the term "procurement" was formulated. People who work with and see photograph use the term to refer to photographs that appear to have been manipulated to show something that was not in the original photograph, remove something that is, or where the appearance of a person or object in the photo appears to have been changed. For example, you will find a photo of a group of famous (or infamous), then you replace the face of one of them with your own to laugh, you have "shopped" the picture. Other programs are Corel Paint Shop Pro, and Serif Photo Plus, to name a few.
There are basic programs photo editing available that allow you to make adjustments and the basic ground rules of manipulation of the photograph. Some of these programs can be found for free, such as Gimp for Windows, Serif Photo Plus, Paint.NET, Image Forge, Pixia, Ultimate Paint, and many others.
Whatever direction you take in the choice of a photo editor, be prepared to become addicted to working with digital photography. As you will discover the many tricks and settings with photo editing, do not be surprised to find yourself immersed for hours at a time pushing and manipulate your photos.
