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In Digital photography, enhancement is very helpful to help you edit your pictures. Sometimes an original looks so bad, it appears as if nothing can be done to help it. Not true! A couple commonly used enhancements are angle correction of slanted pictures and barrel and pincushion correction. The angle correction basically defines itself in the title. If the picture is slightly titled then the angle correction enhancement will help it out quite a bit. One thing the tool needs to have is anti-aliasing. Barrel and pincushion correction is used to fix slanted horizons that were caused by the camera being used to zoom up as far is could go. These enhancements are used mainly for generally annoying changes that some people wouldn't even notice unless it was dramatic, but are useful nonetheless. 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. Lossy or lossless, this is the question of compression. Choosing compression formats is pretty easy; do you want the original image? Or do you want to be able to upload images to the web quickly and without worry? Lossless is for the people who want to the original, you can't pick what size the image will end up in but there will be no loss of the original image. Basically this is for if you want to be able to view the image but not send across the web. Lossy is all about easy transportation of images. You can pick the size of the image and transferring it is extremely easy and fast. Lossy generally ends up in the format of .jpg which is the most commonly read image format across the internet. Lossless ends up often in the .png format which is the most accepted format amongst average image software. When it comes down to deciding you have to think about whether you want it to be quickly accessible or completely original. 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. Batch imaging software is helpful when you want to have a lot of tasks all lined up and completed without interruption. It is nice when you have a whole bunch of images you want to be resized and don't want to do it all manually. This is exactly what the batch image software is good at. E.g. You want to resize an assortment of photos to be 500 x 400, add a signature and compress them all to be 12kb. It is pretty simple to run most of the batch processors, decide what you want done, in put the commands, select the images and run the batch processor. Let it run as long as it takes, all done! A strategy to batch processing is putting all the images you want in a specific directory and then telling the program where it all is, not selecting all the images individually. There are a bunch of programs out there for batch processing, choose the one that has all the functions you want it to do, try to get something that isn't just the bare minimum. 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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