tailieunhanh - 101 QUICK AND EASY SECRETS FOR USING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS- P8

101 QUICK AND EASY SECRETS FOR USING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS- P8:Millions of people around the world have many photos stored on their laptop and desktop computers, external hard drives, CDs and DVDs, and flash drives. Most images are just sitting there idle, waiting for the world to see them. Some have been unused for years. Up until now there has been no guide to help people find ways to use these photos. | Preparing Your Photos for Use 21 Figure shows you the Camera Raw dialog box for GIMP. The options are a bit ambiguous as shown in the figure but if you slide your cursor over any button there s pop-up text to tell you what it will do. Figure The GIMP Camera Raw dialog box. Many photo management programs have photo editing built into them. Many use slider and button features with which to tweak hue saturation exposure exposure compensation and most options to change photos to black and white or sepia tones. The possibilities for tweaking your photos appear to be endless. At you can create animation and reflections in your photos. In iPhoto for Mac you can use editing options click on the pencil at the bottom of the window such as crop straighten enhance red eye and effects and sliders to adjust exposure highlights shadows and hue saturation. There are also controls for noise reduction and special effects. Finally there s Windows Live a free program for Windows in which you can crop fix light levels and adjust colors. Download it from photogallery. 22 Preparing Your Photos for Use Resizing Your Photos for Different Uses Whether you want to print out a wall-sized photo a full-resolution photo or an enlarged photo or insert a thumbnail a very small photo around 8 KB into a website resizing the photo probably will be part of the job. Most of the time when you resize you ll want to make a picture smaller. A good size to make a picture for the Internet is from 50 to 150 KB as a JPEG file . The Internet only handles JPEG GIF and PNG files most of the time JPEGs are the name of the game for uploading files to websites. If you try to make a picture bigger it s best to get a program that works with Photoshop to do the job. Photoshop alone doesn t do a great job with this task. There s a Photoshop plug-in program called Genuine Fractals by onOne Software that does a great job of enlarging photos. If you re going to print using a workflow .