If you're like most people, you have a collection of photos that date back before digital photography was implemented.
While some turned out alright, others are less than satisfactory.
For those 'not so sharp' pictures you have options: digital photography editing software.
These programs allow computer users with scanners to preserve and augment old photos.
There are many free and for purchase photo editing software programs available online as Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Xara X, and CorelDraw, Corel Photo Shop X3, All image editing programs allow you to do a variety of tasks as: • Crop images • Fill in faded or blotched areas with color • Straighten crooked pictures • Enhance color tone and brightness • Sharpen blurry images • Lighten images lacking exposure or darken overexposed images.
Not only are you able to fix poor quality photos, but you can add enhancements to or make changes as: • Add text or graphics • Resize images • Create frames or borders • Delete unwanted parts of a picture These are just a few of the many things you can do with digital photography editing software.
Such a program makes it easy to fix parts of a scanned in image by allowing the user to zoom in on one area at a time.
Various paint brush and drawing tools allow one to fill in or draw lines.
Should you make a mistake, don't despair! Erasers are available as well as the UNDO function.
Various icons or premade clip art images can be added as well.
The possibilities of touching up or enhancing old photos are virtually unlimited.
So if your parents or even grand parents have old pictures they would like to restore, an image editing program can do just that.
Once you revive old photos, save them in various image formats to email to friends or add to websites.
Take the time to learn your editing software, Quality in you photo's will show and always remember backup your photograph collection off computer