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Re:Alpaca Photos Tips and Tricks - 2006/03/29 02:00
More tips and tricks for photos:
A decent image manipulating program is essential for processing digital images. Photshop is the industry standard, but at $700 a copy price is a bit prohibitive.
So, go to http://www.gimp.org/ and download the most recent stable version of GIMP (version 2.2.10 I believe) and install it on your computer.
GIMP is free. Hard to beat that price.
It does 90% of what Photoshop does, and a few things that Photoshop doesn't. The interface is not as friendly as Photoshop, but the price makes up for it.
One of the most useful features will be found under the "Filters" tab. I use the "Unsharp Mask" a lot (Filiters->Enhance->Unsharp Mask). This little tool will really bring the details out in an image.
Crop the image to get rid of extraneous background stuff. Then scale the image according to the use (use 300 DPI resolution for print, 72 DPI resolution for web work)
Once it looks the way you like, click "Save As" For web work you will want to use .jpg. A box will open with a slider.
Check the "Preview in Window" box. Click on the "Advanced Options" and make sure that only the "Optimize" and "Force basline JPEG" boxes are checked.
Now slide that slider to the left as far as you can while still maintaining a decent image. Try to get it below 10kB if possible.
Click "Save" and you should have a very nice image. Even a dark animal shows its details.
Post edited by: admin, at: 2006/03/30 00:14
John Merrell
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