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submitted: Sep 25th 2008 | by: DavidPeters | Total views: 1 | Word Count: 972 | |

When people take digital images and put them on their computers, the pictures are generally not perfect. This is where enhancements come in, they will make it so your picture looks almost professional. One enhancement that is used often is the sharpness enhancement. The sharpness enhancement is extremely helpful. Basically it improves the quality on a fuzzy picture. Almost every editor has the sharpness too, sadly most of them aren't the best. The best ones use algorithms internally to help with the enhancement of the photo. This tool is extremely useful for blurry pictures or one with fuzzy lines and borders.

To resize or to resample, that is the question. The answer to that question is really what your editor has and what you feel like doing. Resizing is a lot simpler than re-sampling but doesn't turn out as nice. This is because when you reduce an image with resizing a few pixels will be deleted altogether. When enlarging an image by resizing the pixels will be doubled or even tripled. This creates a fuzzy or blocky image. While re-sampling uses algorithms to either interpolate (enlarging the image by adding color to pixels) or reduce images by re-calculating all the pixels in the photo. Decent image editors will have a few algorithms for re-sampling and resizing will be an available option.

When you are editing your images you are going to want to change the format and the size of the image altogether. There are two types of compressing images. One is the Lossy compressing style. This is more the conservative image compressor, it takes up the least space and is easily uploaded to the web or to an email program. Generally this will save in the .jpg format, one of the most commonly seen everywhere. Lossless on the other hand has the disadvantage of not being able to choose the size you want the image. However, you will be able keep a smaller image of the original version. Common to its name, lossless compressions do not lose any part of the image. The format this compression normally saves to is .png though it can save to a bmp or rle which are less common formats. In the end which one you choose is up to whether you don't care about the original image or you really care and don't want anything lost, your pic.

Having a half decent image viewer is just as important as actually changing them. Having the ability to easily access and change your images in a process that isn't complicated to you is essential. There should be some definite functions, like the viewer should easily be adapt to your needs, be able to enhance photos and be beneficial to your use. Aquiring photos and adding them to your database should be quite easy. Managing EXIF data and being able to batch process is helpful. A couple recommended viewers would be Photophilia and Zoner Photo Studio. These are both amateur accessible and function filled. Helpful functions that you could have would be the batch function, editing function, a file filter would be nice and the image size via pixels.

When you want to you don't have do edit a whole bunch of images at a time. Having something that will control all the changes you want made to a large amount of images. If you want the images resizes it is very easy. There are bunch of types of batch processors. Each has its ups and downs, some photo viewers even have batch software that comes with them. A good example of what you want a batch processor to is have a large amount of images in one directory ready to go. Then you tell the software what to do, e.g. 50 images that need to be resized to 100 x 50 pixels then add a watermark and compress the image to 5kb to be transferred in email. Then you tell the program to run and within the next hour your images will be all ready to go.

A handy tool to have if you don't intend to collect thousands of pictures is a digital photo album. This is handy because you can add descriptions and make sure you get a nice looking album for people to look at. This is different from a photo view because it actually stores all the photos no matter where they are located. The program will actually go and find all your photos. This would not be recommended if you have more than 2,000 photos because if a file gets corrupted you could lose all your pictures. An online viewer would actually be useful because then after you used a batch processor you could upload them all to the site and have just as nice of an album online. In the end it is up to you whether even want an album in the first place.

Want to know what other people are asking? Check these out: Q: I am looking for a way to make a contact sheet of several photos and include the EXIF data with the photos. Do you know of a easy way to do this ? A: A convenient software to do this is Zoner Photo Studio. More details on how to do it at How to date photo and print them with EXIF. Q: I am trying to find software that will allow me to print two pictures per page, with the embedded date &time from the camera. A: You need a software that is able to print "contact sheets" together with a selection of the EXIF data of your photos. A convenient one is Zoner Photo Studio. More details on how to do it at How to date photo and print them with EXIF.

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