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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 :

page 4X6 0.24MP 1MP 2MP
page 5X7 0.35MP 1.5MP 3MP
page 8X10 0.8MP 3MP 7MP
page 11X14 1.5MP 6MP 14MP
page 16X20 3MP 12MP 28MP
page 20X30 6MP 24MP 54MP

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.

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.

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.