Digital Photography

How to Enhance Digital Images – Introduction

I. Photo Editing Software

A. Consumer Level (free to $40)

1. These packages are deigned for beginners, easy to use with lots of help using “wizards”

3. Microsoft Picture It

4. MGI Photo Suite

5. ULead Photo Express

6. ACDSee

7. The one that came with your camera

B. Prosumer Level ($60 to $100)

1. These provide a wide variety of powerful photo editing tools.  They have a fairly steep learning curve and are good for advanced users

2. JASC Paint Shop Pro

3. Adobe Photo Elements for Windows and
Adobe Photo Elements for the Mac

4. Ulead Photo Impact

C. Professional Level

1. Adobe PhotoShop. ($600) The most powerful photo editing tool. It has advanced editing tools and a very steep learning curve.  Used by professional photo editors

2. GIMP (freeware)

II. Some Things You Can Do

A. Rotate the picture right or left

B. Flip the picture horizontally or vertically

C. Crop the picture to eliminate unwanted areas

D. Adjust the quality of the picture

1. Color

2. Brightness

3. Contrast

4. Sharpness

5. Hue

6. Saturation

E. Add or Delete Features

F. Remove Unwanted Elements

F. Add Elements

G. Remove rips, tears, dust and scratches

H. Correct red eye

I. Retouch elements

J. Create Trick Scale Pictures

Take these two pictures:		And combine them to look like this:

K. Create special effects, for example:

L. Create a Panorama

Take a series of overlapping images like these:
And combine them to create this:

M. Create a Collage