By Vincent Manga
Jul 14, 2008
Digital photography has revolutionised the way we take photographs. In particular the fact that we can now easily digitally edit photographs from the comfort of our own homes on our PCs. Digital photography software is now at the reach of all amateur photographers, not just the professionals like it once was.
Nowadays there are lots of different photography editing software packages available. Each software package attempts to fit the needs and wants of a particular demographic of people. For this reason deciding on which digital photography software to use is harder than ever.
You need to ask yourself what exactly you need in your software. For instance a …show more content…
Generally in these programmes you will have the ability to perform basic edits to your digital photographs like resizing, cropping, redeye removal plus a few printing options and other basic editing tools.
Additionally these basic programmes will also quite often include options to add filters to your photographs and the ability to make your photographs black-and-white etc.
The main difference between a user using basic photography software and a user using professional editing software, is that the user using the basic software will have a lot less control over the editing process, where as the user using the professional software will have full control over the editing process.
Some of the very basic digital photography software available can actually be downloaded free of charge from the Internet. These software programmes are generally very basic, but if you're just starting out with photograph editing software there may well be a good place to start.
Now if you've been using basic photography software for some time, it's more than likely that you are starting to get a little fed up with its limitations. Now is the time to make a point of making notes of what editing options are letting you down in your current software and what editing tools are currently vacant in your