Photo Fix 101
Basic techniques for enhancing your scanned and digital camera images.

These are the basic steps in image enhancement. Almost every image you’ll see in print will have had these basic steps performed. Granted, some images have had many, many more modifications done, yet these steps will be paramount in the mix. And these steps are common. These are the ways the pros do it.

Page 1: Introduction

First, lets take this picture as an example. Looks all right I guess? Well, let’s see what we can do with this image with a few basic steps, OK? Then we’ll see how much we like this unedited image.




Oh, yeah. These screen prints have been taken from Photoshop. There’s almost an identical tool in every photo-editing package. They all work the same way; so don’t be rattled if your photo editor is not from Adobe. The tools will still look almost the same too. If you don’t yet have a photo editor, there are several free ones on the web, and I highly recommend you consider Adobe Photoshop Elements4, as it is a fine, fine non-professional photo editor.

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