Photo Editing Tips

“Click Here” is Not Just a Computer Term

Ever too often, computer users see the words “click here” and are oftentimes tempted to do so, even if they knew that the certain call to action is quite suspicious and questionable in some banners, links, and ads. However, this term is not familiar for those who use the computer, but even to those who are using digital cameras and even DSLRs. How do the words apply to them? Have you ever been in a scenario where you have a camera and you wanted to take a shot of you and your companion, but in a way that the shot is controlled? You will usually ask a stranger to grab your camera and have them take a picture of you.
As the individual may not be too familiar with the unit that you own, you commonly act on the stimulus of pointing to them where the action button is by pointing to it and saying, “Click here”. See, without you noticing it, you have already said the words that are used and known in the computer world. It does not have any complication whatsoever, but it would really help if people would have their own tripods. Doing so will actually save them time and effort in calling other individuals, just to have their shots done for them. Ironically, most of the pictures taken by strangers are stranger than what you think. Some may be off focus, while others may come out blurred. Just bring a tripod and you no longer need to teach people where your camera buttons are located.

Photo Editing on the Go

Many fail to maximize their digital cameras that can be used as a preliminary editing platform in between those shots. Most come with rudimentary/basic editing functions such as cropping, resizing and much more but as said, they are the basics.

The editing capabilities of your camera also taxes your memory area for it does take time and a lot of space to do so(for some save edited images into a new file). You can erase them as needed but for more control or more pinpoint editing, wait till you get home so you can do so with a bigger display and more tools.

Online Photo Editing Goes Mainstream

Many online programs have prospered in recent years and with their success comes the success of the photo industry. Camera’s have gotten way cheaper and with free photo editing tools, you get more value for your money. You can even get your prints sent to the printers directly, with the developed prints sent to you through mail.

Or why not send them directly to your social media page/s such as Facebook or to your photo blog. That with the many other capabilities of the online editing tools makes for one sweet photo indeed. Be sure to keep racy pics out of the net or your social pages for they can get quite messy should you leave them lying around(and they do stick around even if you have deleted them from the page in the clouds of the internet).

Picnik: Program

Image Source: Picnik

Like the two online photo editing services featured in the last two posts, Picnik is a free service site. It boasts cool features such as its ability to fix underexposed photos, effects application, and red-eye removal. Unlike XMG Image (but like Preloadr), the service allows to photo sharing and upload to main photo sharing sites.

Features Summary:

Photo uploads can be done via URL and PC
Able to upload to photo sharing services
Photos can be cropped and resized.
Able to correct exposure.
Contains special effects.
Supports gif, jpeg, png formats for input.
Supports gif, jpeg, png formats for output.
Service is free of charge.

Source: Picnik

Online Photo Sharing Sites offer free Editing

Online of course and that goes for most image sharing sites such as Photo bucket and many others. This not only allows you to share your photos, but fix them as well making them better for sharing across the may sharing sites all over the place. You not only get to share your photos for free, you get them edited free without having to purchase expensive photo editing software to do so. Most digital camera’s have their own editing software part of the package but without them, you may end up with very gaudy pictures indeed. Continue reading Online Photo Sharing Sites offer free Editing…

FotoFlexer

Not all photo editing software can deliver utmost quality and power, this one does for it rivals some of the more expensive labels like Adobe’s PhotoShop and Corel. The good thing about today’s photo editing software is the fact that you don’t have to install the system for a few minutes to learning how it is used for another hour or so. You log in, upload the photos and start working on improving your photos, fast, quick and easy. Many of the most powerful photo editing software do cost a lot and the best options are these free editing software that started out quite primal but thanks to many innovations in the development process that aims to improve on them almost constantly, they have caught up and are here to stay. Continue reading FotoFlexer…

Flicker Hosts Picnik

Everybody loves the idea of photo editing and for whatever reason one may choose to do so, it is plain and simple fun for all. May you be a child who wants to make things a bit more interesting for your parents and friends or the adult who wishes to make the ordinary shot a bit more professional, it works for all of us and life cannot be easier when Yahoo, Flicker and Picnik are all brought together to make for one collection of the best software collaboration around. Life is a bit easier when you have the best mail services, search, photo editing and photo-hosting and sharing sites all combined into one nifty mashup of sorts. Continue reading Flicker Hosts Picnik…

Using Picnik

There are many photo editing software out there, but one of the most convenient is the use of Picnik, an online editing software you can find here.

What’s good about Picnik is that it doesn’t require you to download any sort of software. You simply upload the photos into the system, simple interface, and integeration into popular social networking and online photo storage sites like Facebook, MySpace and Flickr, you can easily transfer your edited photos into your accounts. You are also given the option to download your pictures and save them in your hard drive.

It’s a fun and fast way to edit your photos on the fly, so you might want to give it a try.

Quick-Fix’s

Most photo editing software have an auto-fix button that allows the software to automatically adjust aspects of the picture to make it more acceptable. One problem for rather poor quality pictures, if you use it, it end’s up pixelating the whole shot where the individual pixels show up leaving a rather ugly shot that is not easy to recover from if you happen to have saved it to the file.
Continue reading Quick-Fix’s…

Picasa

Picasa is not known for its photo editing features, but it does the job enough for basics. If all you want is to add a little touch to the picture, then you should be ok with it. And did we tell you that it’s free?

Today, we’re adding an even higher degree of control — the ability to share only with specific individuals. This is the most restrictive sharing setting, and it requires recipients to have (or sign up for) a Picasa Web Albums account. As such, it’s a bit more work than the well-balanced convenience of unlisted albums, but if you’re looking for exceptionally tight control over exactly who can see specific photo albums in your collection, give this feature a spin.

So what are you waiting for? Try it out and you won’t be disappointed.

Source