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Touching up your photos

By Larry Loh
Dec 02, 2002

There's a whole realm of software photo-editing techniques that can add a new dimension to good pictures, maybe even salvage some bad ones.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
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There are many programs available to choose from to suit any need and editing style. Some are basic programs with only simple tools that allow you to crop a photo and change brightness, contrast and color balance. More sophisticated programs, such as Adobe Photoshop, let you edit every pixel. There are less expensive options that give you almost as much editing power, including PaintShop Pro and Adobe PhotoDeluxe. Most imaging hardware, such as scanners and printers, do come bundled with some intermediate form of photo-editing software.

Once you’ve selected an image-editing program to use, you can touch up and repair the most common photo problems with just a few clicks. In a traditional darkroom, you control images with choices of films, chemicals, papers and processes. In the digital equivalent of the darkroom, the same controls are carried out with a computer system and a photo-editing program.

How to edit your images
Learn fundamental techniques, from re-sizing to rotating.

Photography by Larry Loh and Reuben Lee
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