Monday, July 9, 2012

Do not edit photos in camera itself

Many cameras these days come with editing software that claims to edit photos beautifully. We’d quickly advise three things regarding editing:

One. Do not do in-camera editing. If you need to edit photos, use a good editing software. If the camera came with a CD / DVD of an editing software, it would do fair amount of day-to-day editing. Such editing would include cropping, cutting from edges, minor color corrections, red-eye removal [when people show up with red eyes in photos], flipping the photo horizontally or vertically [to correct photos when taken from a tilted camera], turning into black-and-white, etc.

Two. If you need to edit photos for color correction, fine editing of objects in a photo, etc, go for only professional editing software such as Photoshop (very expensive) and Gimp (free for download). Do not edit the photo too much unless you have some sort of expertise on these software.

Three. Save a copy of the original photo before editing it. Editing often plays with the intrinsic quality of the photo, as explained in other posts on this website.

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