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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Using Software For Digital Photo Editing

By Michelle Jensen


In order to dress up a photograph in the pre-digital age, people often made paper cutouts and layered them over the photos. Enlarging an image required the help of a photo shop and negatives. But now that digital cameras and scanning systems for older photos are quite widespread, all of these can be accomplished by one relatively cheap piece of digital photo editing software.

Usually, people receive their editing software with the purchase of a new computer, printer, scanner, camera, or other electronic component. Sometimes, these are trial versions or free versions of paid software. This is alright if the trial or free version is just a less fully featured version of the paid option, but it can be troublesome if it's the type that locks you out after a given period of time.

If you don't have any editing software, or the type you have isn't up to the task, you can consider free downloads from the internet. Some of these pieces of free editing software will be quite sufficient for people who only want the more basic features. If you want the fancier features, consider purchasing the software. It doesn't usually cost that much.

Variations occur in what photo editing software is capable of. Some tools are staples that nearly every piece of software will feature, and some are specific to a given program. The ability to move parts of one photo into another and seamlessly merge the two together is a common feature that most pieces of editing software will have.

You can also use photo editing software to create things like holiday cards, or decorative images. The addition of colorful, seasonal borders around a photo that can then be printed as one single image is a popular thing to do around the holidays. Artistic blurring tools and the ability to turn a color photo into a black and white photo are also popular.

If you have a computer, you should have photo editing software. It's a great deal of fun, and can be used in many different manners to increase the creativity of your photos and other artistic endeavors.




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