One of the first really powerful photo editing programs was Deluxe Paint, designed by Dan Silva and Electronic Arts for the Commodore Amiga computer.
With a wide variety of features and an eye-catching, high quality image of King Tut’s mask on the cover, Deluxe Paint was the leader in graphics programs for years.
Originally designed [...]
If you’re serious about photography, and if you’re looking for the best and most powerful photo editing program around, the de facto standard and market leader is Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Unfortunately, with it’s steep learning curve and equally steep price tag, Photoshop is overkill for the people who just want to play with their pictures.
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“I’ve heard a lot of confusing stuff about JPGs.
Some people tell me they’re perfect for online photography, and other people warn me that when I convert my pictures to JPG, I’m going to throw away most of the quality of my picture! I don’t want to ruin my pictures, so should I be [...]
Image Resolution The Resolution is the number of pixels, or dots, in a picture.
Inkjet Printer An Inkjet printer sprays tiny jets of ink onto paper.
ISO The sensitivity of film is measured by ISO, and the larger the number, the more senstive the film.
ISO 100 needs a lot of light, like outdoors [...]
Dodging Dodging is making a section of a photo lighter.
When this is done in the darkroom, it’s usually by blocking some of the light from reaching that part of the picture.
In a photo editing program, it’s a paintbrush like tool that lightens instead of painting.
Download Downloading is the opposite of [...]
Yes, the name is backwards.
The “Unsharp Mask” tool in Adobe Photoshop and other programs does exactly the opposite of what the name implies–it sharpens pictures.
But, it does it by emulating an old photography sharpening trick.
It also happens to be one of the best tools in the photo editor’s drawer.
Darkroom [...]
Before digital photography came of age, photographs had to go through the darkroom.
Like cars on a conveyor belt, each image had to go through a series of steps, all the way through the development and printing process.
Digital photography doesn’t require a darkroom, but it does help to keep that conveyor belt [...]
There are so many different file types to choose from, like RAW, JPG, GIF, TIFF, and PNG.
Which one is right for you?RAW is the internal file format for many digital cameras.
Photographers like to shoot in RAW format because it doesn’t get any processing in the camera, allowing them to adjust things [...]
Cloning, in digital photography, has absolutely nothing to do with sheep.
Unless, of course, you want to use the cloning tool to turn an image of one sheep into a whole flock of them.
The Cloning tool is used to copy one part of the image into another area, or even into another picture entirely.
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Adobe Photoshop is the market leader in photo editing software.
Originally designed by John and Thomas Knoll in 1987 for the Macintosh, the program has grown into the industry standard for computer graphics today.
Many of the most well-known features of graphics programs in use today were originally pioneered by the Photoshop system.
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