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Photo Editing Tips: Fine Tune Your Photos

Although using your computer's photo editing software can result in vastly improved photographs, software is not your only option for tweaking an image. Some digital cameras include in-camera photo editing tools, allowing you to make a quick fix to a digital photo.
  1. New Photo Editing Software (1)
  2. Using Photo Sharing Web Sites (3)

Digital Camera Effects

There are a host of imaging programs available nowadays, and you can make almost any adjustment to your digital photographs on a computer. It can be far more satisfying to learn how to create different effects in-camera, though. Try these tips for creating in-camera digital camera effects.

Using Corel PaintShop Photo Pro

Corel PaintShop Photo Express is a software package that allows you to edit your digital photos after you shoot them, giving you the capability of fixing minor problems, improving the contrast, or adding special effects.

Using Abode Photoshop Elements 9

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 is a software package that allows you to edit your digital photos after you shoot them, giving you the capability of fixing minor problems, improving the contrast, or adding special effects.

What is Gamma?

Gamma is a non-linear operation used to code and decode brightness values in still and moving imagery. It is applicable in photographic terms when we want to view images on computer monitors.

Learn How to Create Actions in Photoshop

Actions are a really useful feature of Photoshop, which can save photographers a great deal of time by performing repetitive tasks. They can also be used to "batch process" a number of images at one time. This article will show you how to set up a new Action within Photoshop to resize your images to a standard size.

Converting RAW Images in Photoshop

If you're serious about your photography, then sooner or later you will want to start working with RAW images. Here are the top tips for working with the Camera Raw plug-in for RAW images in Photoshop.

Best Free Online Photo Editors

If you haven't checked out online photo editors lately, you really should ... and you'll be glad you did. They've advanced far beyond where they were even a few years ago, and some really good online photo editors are free.

How to Watermark Your Photos

If you're placing your photographs on the Internet, you'll want to make sure you protect your rights to those images. The best way to protect digital photos is by watermarking your photos. Use these tips to learn how to watermark your photos.

What Is Compression?

Different file formats on DSLRs and computers apply different levels of compression. Photographers tend to try and avoid compression by shooting RAW files, which have no compression at all applied to them.

Find Ideas for Editing Photos

Hewlett-Packard has compiled a series of links, articles, and video tutorials for helping beginning photographers edit and restore their photos.

Try Adobe Photoshop Express

If the full Photoshop software program is too expensive, try Photoshop Express. With the free Web-based Photoshop Express software from Adobe, you can gain access to basic photo-editing tools, such as cropping, red-eye removal, and resizing.

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