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Dave Johnson

"How to Do Everything: Digital Camera 5 edition"

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?–  Determine the computer requirements to edit photos
?–  Choose a photo editing program
?–  Open and edit images
?–  Change the resolution of digital photos for e-mail, web, and other applications
?–  Save an image in a different file format
?–  Crop photos to improve composition
?–  Fix the color and exposure in a photo
?–  Rotate images taken with the camera on its side
?–  Fix a crooked image
One of the most exciting advantages of using a digital camera is the power and control it
gives you over tweaking and improving your images. Don??™t like your composition? Change
it. You can crop your pictures just a little to subtly improve their appearance or radically change
the look of a picture by turning its orientation from landscape to portrait. You can fix a crooked
horizon, tweak the colors or brightness of an image, improve a bad exposure??”it??™s all up to you.
These are things that, until recently, you needed a darkroom and a whole lot of practice to do
right, and every attempt would cost you money in photo paper and chemicals, or in trips to the
photo shop, where you??™d have to explain what you wanted to someone else, who might or might
not quite get what you were looking for. These days, you can experiment endlessly. It never
costs you a penny until you??™re ready to print the final result because it??™s all done with pixels on a
computer screen.


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