From the course: Introduction to Photography
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Evaluating what you can do with an image editor
From the course: Introduction to Photography
Evaluating what you can do with an image editor
- Image editing is the process of altering, correcting, and adjusting your images, and image editing tasks can run the gamut from simple tone and color correctinos to wild special effects and dramatic retouching of an image. Most of your edits will lean on the side of simple tone and color corrections, though some images might lead you to more complex adjustments. Currently, there are loads of software options for editing images. I'm not going to recommend any specific options here, but instead, we'll quickly run down the basic tools that you'll want to look for when considering an editing package. A crop tool is one of the most important editing tools you'll use. It may not seem like much, especially when compared to the incredible technology found in other editing tools, but the crop tool gives you a profound ability to re-compose your image after you've shot it. For example, I've got an image here that I shot like this, and while I may have thought it was okay when I was looking…
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