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You’ve snapped an image, and now you can rest until you feel like uploading that image to social media or printing. This is workflow of most people who own digital cameras today. Now, unless your camera features a pretty elaborate image processing engine built-in, as some recent Nikons have- you shouldn’t expect the work I’m talking about to be done at this stage. Some Nikon cameras now allow you to do light processing and cropping in-camera , before even uploading the image to your computer. Most cameras today actually do simple adjustments such as sharpening and may even offer you different options of contrast and color representation and balance, but if you’re interested in printing these images at any enlarged scale, greater than 8×10 you should really care about the following steps which you will need to take after taking the photo.
I’ve seen it over, and over, and over. Images which are almost printable, needing only minimal attention in post before it can be considered a decent image. But people easily neglect to make adjustments to misaligned horizons, un-straightened lines, contrast, color correction, cropping, sharpening and adjustment of things such as exposure in their images. To be fair, not everyone is handy with Photoshop (PS) and Gimp, but there are free and easy to use programs with which these adjustments can be made really easily. Take Googles’ Picasa. I primarily use Adobe Lightroom 3.0 now-a-days, which is a photographer suited version of Adobe Photoshop. It basically takes much of the tools photographers used to have to go into Photoshop to utilize, and makes them accessible via the use of sliders. It deconstructs some of the essential elements of post processing work and presents them in one panel (Develop) for easy use. Onto business then:

First tip for processing images

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