Here’s another video for you which shows you how to remove unwanted objects or people, (it’s another lower quality “YouTube” version of one of the video tutorials taken from the full edityourdigitalphotos.com set)
This is one of the most useful skills you can master, as an unwanted oject can often ruin a wonderful photo!
Just his the play button and it will start automatically (make sure you have your speakers on)…
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Image editors are used to scale any image. Image scaling is used to maximize and minimize images sizing. In short image scaling refers to resizing of any digital image. Latest digital cameras produce images of very high resolution and larger images. The images thus produced can be minimized for internet publishing.
Image editors work on the principle of sampling. Sampling is the process in which the resultant pixel values of resized images is calculated. The resized images will have varying values than the original image as they are either minimized or maximized in size.
You’ve tried every possible photographic trick in the book to capture the perfect picture the light, the focus and even the time of the day. But somehow, with your final digital photograph right before your eyes, you aren’t completely satisfied with the final product.
Maybe it’s a picture of the ice-capped peaks, but it simply isn’t looking as cold as you want it to or perhaps your photograph is simply looking too cluttered for your liking Fortunately for you, there have been numerous digital photographers who’ve been down that road and have known just how you feel. And as a result, the art called digital photography editing was created.
Today, there is barely a digital photograph you will find around you which hasn’t been digitally retouched or even re-mastered. And here the best part, with a few quick steps, it is possible for you to adopt this process for yourself, to create immaculate pictures of your very own.
A double exposure image is created by overlaying two images on one another. Follow a stepwise procedure:
1 Select all or a part of the image using the selection tools at the top of the toolbar.
2 Now from the edit menu choose copy.
3 Now open a second image file.
4 From the window menu, you can select the show layer.
5 On the ’show layer’ popup right click and choose new layer and press ok.
6 Now go to the edit menu and press paste.
7 From the layer’s palette, move the opacity slider to 50%.
8 Now drag the mouse from inside the selection to move it.
9 To scale the pasted selection, click on image menu and then select image size.
Adjust the size by adjusting the pixels and height from the pop-up window.
Removing the background of a photograph gives you great flexibility with your photograph. The nice thing about using your editing program is that while removing the background you can choose to do the entire background or merely parts of it to achieve your desired result.
While it is not strictly imperative that your choice of digital photo editing software be able to support all types of object-oriented graphics, the main advantage in using GIMP is that it allows for easy vector to raster conversion.
If you already use a program that supports raster graphics or use any another digital photo editor, it will also work just fine. Something to note is that you will probably see that your editors has a variety of “plug-ins which can be used to alter or remove the background in different ways.
Software plug-ins are computer programs with specific goals. You typically will find that sophisticated photo editing programs use special purpose plug-ins and have the ability to perform background editing and removal based on different criteria.
Once you have removed the background you will find that your objects without backgrounds can be used and manipulated in a variety of different ways. You can place them in a new backdrop and in different situational contexts.
For example, a flower in a garden could have the garden replaced with an vase. The object can be moved around any which way and its alignment with the new background can also be changed.
The great thing about an object without a background is that it maintains all its properties like shape and size, but becomes more flexible to individual usage.
A rough guess of what consists of a good print quality is based on the pixels density or in other words the number of pixels per inch on the printed photo. This is also known as PPI (pixels per inch) and it represents the number of pixels over an axis line.
The following qualities are generally associated with a specific PPI number:
PPI 100 - fair to bad
PPI 200 - good
PPI 300 and up - very good
The next reasonable step would be to determine how many mega pixels are needed for good quality printing on a specific paper size. Calculating this number is very easy. All you need to do is to simply multiply the page length by its width in inches, resulting in the number of square inches on the page. Now multiply this number by the square of the PPI number and the result is the number of pixels on the page which is the number of pixels we want our source photo to have. Here are the numbers calculated for some common sizes :
Try experimenting with different paper sizes, but be careful as this can get expensive. And remember that there are always exceptions to the rules. Sometimes what is considered poor quality pixelization can actually result in a nice artistic effect in your enlargement.
What it comes down to is that while the above calculation helps, common sense and experience are needed to match a particular digital photo to its best possible enlargement size.
Digital photos can be viewed in many different ways, but more than likely you will be viewing them on computer screens or on printed paper. Most prints will be on standard paper sizes such as 4X6 or 5X7.
But every now and again, you may have that special photo that you want to make an enlargement of. The quality of print enlargements depends on you digital camera mega pixels figure.
There is a certain resolution referred to as number of pixels in each digital photo that you take. Pixels can be represented by one number or sometimes as two numbers depicting the number of pixels over the X axis and the number of the Y axis (multiply these two numbers together to determine the total number of pixels in the digital photo).
You are printing these digital pixels onto paper each time you print a digital photo. If the paper size is big relative to the photo resolution, the quality of the print will be poor. Poor quality is often seen by pixelization or the ability to actually see the individual pixels on the print.
That leads us to the question of how do you determine the largest print possible from a particular digital photo? There really is no one exact answer. Not only do the number of pixels help determine photo quality, other factors such as how much detail is in the photo or what the lighting were also play a role.
Even the number of pixels can be argued as different people have different views on what is acceptable print quality.
You can change the color of your image and balance the overall exposure of your images in a number of ways. The most common is by using the levels function or the curves.
Here you can gently touch up your photo making the dark areas darker and the lighter areas lighter to achieve greater or lesser contrast. There are countless other methods and techniques you can use with Photoshop to better your images without having them look like they have been altered.
Selective blurring can give the impression of movement, you can change certain areas of a photo such as the color of a specific object, red eye effects can be removed, skin blemishes and spots can be hidden and even with a little more skill and knowledge, complete makeovers can be achieved.
There was a time in photography that the image you took was the image you got. Altering your image was an art known by few and available to fewer than that. With the technology available through digital imaging this is no longer the case.
Images can be edited to unheard of levels of manipulative wizardry. Users can go beyond just retouching a photo and practically reinvent the image.
Blemishes no longer have to be an embarrassment in a photo. With Photoshop’s retouching tools, you can erase the most severe acne with a few simple keystrokes.
Damaged photos? Are they ripped or torn? Even worse, are they a family heirloom that could never be replaced? Don’t worry, Photoshop can take a scanned photo and retouch tears, scars, water damage and more to make the photograph like new again. It can even revitalize colors that might have faded over the years.
Is their an ex in a picture that you would otherwise love? Erase them! You can remove them from your photo as if they were never there to begin with. In fact, you can remove almost any unwanted object from you photo. If only life were that easy!
Restoring old photos to former glory and retouching other photos is one of the great advances in modern photography, due in large part to Photoshop. Start learning how Adobe Photoshop can make your photos sparkle!
Sometimes, clear lines that separate the images in the panorama may appear. It is possible to blend the lines so that they disappear. Select the Advance Blending option located at the right of the Photomerge window, then select Preview. Inconsistencies in color will be calculated by the program.
At this point, the images will blend together. Photoshop will combine all the individual images for your panoramic into a single layer. If you select the Keep as Layers option it is easier to edit each image individually. This is a great help if one of the images is brighter or darker then the other images. You can select that image in layers and adjust the brightness for just that image.
It is a good idea to save the layers as a .psd file so that you can always come back and correct any mistakes or make any changes later. It’s a real pain to have to redo everything from scratch just if you made a mistake or want to change something later.
You can also distort the pictures so that the scene will look like it is in perspective. Choose the Perspective option on the bottom of Settings. You can also do this by choosing Set Vanishing Point in the Photomerge window, then click to an area in the panorama.
Image editors are used to scale any image. Image scaling is used to maximize and minimize images sizing. In short image scaling refers to resizing of any digital image. Latest digital cameras produce images of very high resolution and larger images. The images thus produced can be minimized for internet publishing.
You’ve tried every possible photographic trick in the book to capture the perfect picture the light, the focus and even the time of the day. But somehow, with your final digital photograph right before your eyes, you aren’t completely satisfied with the final product.
A double exposure image is created by overlaying two images on one another. Follow a stepwise procedure: 
Removing the background of a photograph gives you great flexibility with your photograph. The nice thing about using your editing program is that while removing the background you can choose to do the entire background or merely parts of it to achieve your desired result.
A rough guess of what consists of a good print quality is based on the pixels density or in other words the number of pixels per inch on the printed photo. This is also known as PPI (pixels per inch) and it represents the number of pixels over an axis line.
Digital photos can be viewed in many different ways, but more than likely you will be viewing them on computer screens or on printed paper. Most prints will be on standard paper sizes such as 4X6 or 5X7.
You can change the color of your image and balance the overall exposure of your images in a number of ways. The most common is by using the levels function or the curves.
There was a time in photography that the image you took was the image you got. Altering your image was an art known by few and available to fewer than that. With the technology available through digital imaging this is no longer the case.
