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Intro To Digital Photography Editing Software
Photo editing has changed a lot since the days of printing photos in the darkroom. Actions that used to take hours of painstaking work can now be done or, more importantly, undone at the click of a mouse. So, if you're just getting started you first want to learn about the basic terminology of digital photography editing software. Here is a quick guide on photo editors to help get you started.
Digital Photography Editing Software
There are many, many pieces of software dedicated to photo editing on the market. They have an incredible range in terms of both price and quality. In the end, you will need to decide what you are willing to spend and what you want to do with it. In this article, we won't discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each photo editor, but know there is a lot of options to choose from depending upon what you want. If you're looking for free editors, you should look at The Giimp or Paint.net or if you want to buy a professional program definitely check out Adobe Photoshop.
Functions of Photo Editing Software
Although photo editing software can be very complex and allow for endless creativity, here are a few basic things that you'll want to know right away.
- Crop: Cropping is when you take parts of a photo you don't need, then get rid of them by redrawing the frame. Anything inside the frame will be kept, anything outside will be trashed. One important thing to remember about cropping is that it changes the final dimensions of your photographs, so if you're planning on printing or display them in wood picture frames them make sure you crop with the same aspect ratio (width to height).
- Image Contrast: The contrast refers to how much the tones or colors stand out from each other in the picture. Add contrast and you'll see your darks get darker and your lights get lighter, remove contrast and eventually everything will cloud into a gray fog. If you want the grain of your pictures to stand out and be noticed, you may want to increase the picture's contrast.
- Level of Brightness: Brightness refers to the level of lighting of the entire picture. If you've taken a picture that turned out too dark, turning up the brightness may help some of the details stand out. If you slowly increase the contrast and brightness together, you may be able to save an otherwise un-usable picture.
- Photo Saturation: Saturation refers to how deep your colors are. If you remove the saturation from a color picture, the photo will change to black and white. If you amp it up, your colors will quickly begin to look unnatural and super-bright.
- The Hue: Hue impacts the tone of an image. If you change the hue, your picture will change from a green or blue tint to purple, red or any other possible color. Although it takes a little time to get used to, changing the hue can make a big improvement to images taken under fluorescent light.
- Transforming Your Photo: Though presented differently in each software suite, they all have some way for you to flip, rotate, or resize your images. Hopefully you won't have to make too many adjustments of this nature, but should an image turn out slightly crooked it's good to know you have alternatives.
No matter which editing software you use, you will find a way to adjust all of those elements. One way to add depth and bring out the picture's color is to decrease the saturation amount while increasing the contrast. Otherwise, do your best not to rely on editing and try to get all of the work done in the camera. Editing is a tool, but it's always better if you start with the best possible photograph and make it better, as opposed to trying to salvage an awful shot.
how to take quality photos of people in fluorescent lighting?
I am not a professional photographer but have been asked to take photos for work. They will be of people indoors with fluorescent lighting. Any tips for this sort of photo would be appreciated. I will be working with a Nikon d80.
First just set your cameras white balance to fluorescent. Take some test shots when you get there to further get the lighting just right using the Filter effects feature on your camera to warm or cool the images.
Remember that overhead lighting is not that faltering, so look at the way the lighting is striking the people you are shooting.
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