Photo Manipulation
Photo Manipulation
Your photo manipulation journey begins with the need to accumulate the right tools for the job.
The use of a computer and a digital camera is a great start. Older type film cameras are fine, but most photo editing is done on the computer, it would be easier to work with a digital one. Removing the time consuming step of scanning film can be a money and time saver. Choosing the right camera would also be a great advantage bear inmind that a single frame of 35mm film would hold about the equivalent of 12 Mega Pixels and now medium priced cameras can take pictures of 16MP.
Next the choice of good photo manipulation software. There are a few freeware packages on the Internet and one of them should be good enough for a beginner. Finally, search this site for some digital photo manipulation tutorials to point you in the right direction. The top 3 image editing software that are available in the market are Photoshop, Faststone photo resize, and Image Resizer Powertoy.
Image editing what can be achieved ?
Many things can be done using photo editing software from basics such as red eye removal and correcting colour balance to adjusting brightness. Also, different special effects like sepia can be applied. More advanced techniques that can be used to give new look to pictures. You may be surprised that you can correct wrinkles, whiten teeth, remove eye bags in the picture itself. Photo manipulation can also improve the colour, adjust any irregularities, remove unwanted items if any, add special effects, refurbish the image, and much more. Photo Manipulation is the best single way of enhancing your digital pictures by retouching and applying special effects to them.
Background removal and Image warping are two of the easiest tools that are used for photo manipulation.
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