Thursday, May 31, 2007

Photo Software for Digital Camera - How to make a choice?

So you own the best digital camera? That is good news. However, does it have effective photo software? After a few clicks you will feel the need to edit/enhance a few photos that were just clicked.In order to ensure that you move to the next level you should seriously think about a good and professional photo-editing software. You might face many problems after you have snapped a few photos. I think the most troublesome of them all is the red eye. Most photo software’s come with a red-eye elimination or reduction method. The red eye reduction method should ensure that the eyes are left looking lifelike by not eliminating the pupil reflection. Using the red eye reduction should be easy. The most easy and useful photo software that I have come across is photolightning. There are others like adobe and acdsystems which are also good. The most recommended features that a photo software should include are:

1) Photo Editing: To apply special effects to your photos and resize, modify, cut them.

2) Image viewing: The photos are shown to you in a thumbnail view with the ability to edit the photo while viewing them.

3) Batch Processing: Easily resize, rename, add captions/watermarks, change format, and change timestamp. The feature that is a need of any photo software nowadays.

4) The photo album - or organizer: This feature lets you add captions to your photos.

5) Photo Enhancing Feature: The ability to adjust Brightness, Saturation etc automatically/semi-automatically that enhances the picture quality.

6) Create Slideshows: This is an optional feature but very useful indeed.

7) A How To-Manual

8) …. There are so many features that the list may be never ending make your choice today and get enhance your photography skills with a good photo software.

All these features may be common to many other photo software’s but the ease of use is what should be looked out for. Remember that each and every software has its positives and negatives, you should look for a proper blending of both.


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