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What do You need to Know about Photo Editing and where to Start?

Have you ever needed to edit a photo using your computer, but you didn’t know where to start? Suppose, you need to edit a photo for your company’s flyers or perhaps you just wanted to process a few photos from your vacation before sharing them with your friends. The truth is that almost every photo can be improved with minimal effort.

Although photo editing may seem a bit tricky, you do not need to be a professional designer or photographer in order to learn how to do it. We can improve the quality of photos by following just a few simple steps and spending less than five minutes to do it. I have got some easy to follow instructions from Movavi experts. You can read the tips from https://www.movavi.com/support/how-to/how-to-crop-pictures.html .

No matter where you need to work – at home or in the office – this small lesson will give you an idea of where to start. You can apply the techniques described in this article in almost any application for working with photos.

The basics:

Every day we see digital image files in many places. Whenever you see a photo on your computer or smartphone, remember that this is a digital image file. When you shoot with a digital camera, you save the photo to digital format. Even the photographs that you see outside of digital devices — for example, in newspapers and magazines — were mostly digital images before they were printed.

Pixels:

Each digital photo consists of pixels. You can think of a pixel as a small square dot painted in a certain color. When you view a photo on a computer, you actually see thousands of pixels. But due to the fact that the pixels are very small, you will not notice this until you enlarge the photo.

Dimensions:

Mentioning the height and width of the photo, you are talking about its size. If an image is 500 pixels wide and 200 pixels high, you can say that the image is 500 pixels per 200 pixels

Resolution:

Under the resolution refers to the number of parts contained in the image. The higher the resolution, the better the photo you get. Especially resolution is important for printing and increasing photos. When you reduce the photo, you will not see a big difference in quality, but if you make the image larger than its original size, this will give a noticeable degradation of the photo quality.

Photo Formats:

There are many different formats you can use. It is important to know the basics of photo formats, as well as the most common ones that you will see when working with photos.

Recommended formats:

The most common formats we often use are JPEG. This type of file is usually used for photos and digital cameras for capturing the maximum part of photos in this format. Another type is PNG. This type of file is usually used for graphics and illustrations, although it can also be used by photographers. PNG uses lossless compression, so photos saved in this format will be better quality than JPEG, but their size will be much larger. There are still many different formats of graphic digital files. One of these is GIF. This format was originally created for graphics, but now mainly used for animated images on the network.