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1 Digital Images: Free Tools for Photo Editing D 26/1 Get Amazing Results With Free Photo Editing Software With the information in this article you can: Learn about fast, effective photo editing techniques Improve the quality of your digital photographs Change lighting conditions and crop your photos Remove unwanted blemishes such as red eye With conventional photography, making retrospective improvements to images is a procedure best left to professionals, or the most dedicated amateur. Digital photography changes all of this. Now, anyone with access to a PC can manipulate digital photos, turning each and every one of them into a masterpiece! Sometimes, you may take a photograph and then realise that an opportunity to capture a unique event has been ruined. Maybe the light level was too dark, or your subjects have red eye reflections from the camera s flash. This article will show you how you can improve these images, bringing a whole new dimension to your enjoyment of photography. Dr Steve North: A great deal of creative fun can be had with a digital photograph after it has been taken. Your PC is capable of transforming your digital photo collection, just through a few simple editing tricks. Learning how to make subtle use of image effects and manipulations is a skill in itself. The great thing is that freely available software makes it very easy to get started. The only barrier is your imagination! First steps in digital photo editing... D 26/2 Free editing software tools... D 26/3 Auto Balance with Digital Camera Enhancer... D 26/4 Reduce red eye with FxFoto... D 26/5 Use The Gimp to rotate... D 26/6 Get cropping with Irfanview... D 26/7 Resize your photo with Paint Shop Pro... D 26/8 Selective brightening with Picasa 2... D 26/9 The Windows Advisor June/July 05 1

2 D 26/2 Digital Images: Free Tools for Photo Editing You can use any graphics software to edit your photographs. First Steps in Digital Photo Editing In this section you will find an introduction to some of the most important functions for editing your digital photos. Many of the editing features required for digital photos are the same as for any digital image. Therefore, most popular painting and graphics software (Adobe Photoshop, for example) is perfectly suitable for editing your snaps. H o w e v e r, you don t necessarily need the complicated features that these programs offer in order to improve your photos. There are many simplified tools that just offer the filters and adjustments required for digital photography, and the good news is that many of these programs are free! The most common editing functions are: Brightness allows you to lighten up photos that were taken in low-light situations. Pictures that are over-lit (taken facing the sun, for example) can be darkened to reduce the glare. Contrast adjusts the relative values of dark and light within the photo. This can sometimes be used to bring out more detail, or to enhance edges, by creating a more apparent boundary. If you are manually adjusting brightness and colour, a good starting point is to adjust the brightness, as required. Then, change the contrast to the same new setting as the brightness. A corresponding contrast value will often stop the lightened photo from appearing washed-out. Rotate revolves the entire photo. This is frequently required where the camera has been turned on its side to take a picture in portrait. Values are often in multiples of 90 degrees. For example: 90 left, 90 right or 180. Crop this makes it possible to select the best region of a photo and crop away the unwanted edges. 2 The Windows Advisor June/July 05

3 Digital Images: Free Tools for Photo Editing D 26/3 Auto Balance sets optimal brightness and contrast values from one control. Resize particularly useful when you need to make an image small enough to to a friend, or to use in the design of a web page. Don t forget that smaller images will have a smaller file size. Colour Balance this can be one control that optimises the hue and saturation of all colours. It might also permit separate modification to the red, green and blue values that make up all possible colour combinations. Red Eye Reduction compensates for the flash reflection in a subject s eye, which can ruin a portrait shot. Area-specific adjustment features such as brightness and contrast can be applied just to a specified region of a photo. Painting and text features includes at least basic graphics functionality, so that additions can be made (painting out blemishes, for example), or captions added. Free Editing Software Tools The CD that accompanies this update contains several free tools that will help you to make the most of your images. The following table shows how each of the featured software tools supports the manipulation functions introduced in the previous section. This article will go on to introduce each of the tools and to describe how it may be used to perform one of the image functions. Resizing an image will also reduce the file size of a photo, making it easier to . Area-specific adjustment allows photos to be altered in just one region, and leave the rest of the picture. Yes No Test The Windows Advisor June/July 05 3

4 D 26/4 Digital Images: Free Tools for Photo Editing Featured Software Function DCE FxFoto The Gimp Irfanview Paint Shop Pro Picasa 2 Brightness No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Contrast No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Auto Balance Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Rotate No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Crop No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Resize No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Colour Balance Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Red Eye Reduction Area-specific adjustment Painting and text features No Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes (text only) Yes No DCE is very useful for correcting images taken in poor lighting conditions. Auto Balance With Digital Camera Enhancer Digital Camera Enhancer (DCE) is a very simple photoenhancing tool. Although it doesn t offer the sophistication of the other featured tools, it may be just what you need. It is particularly good at improving photographs taken in poor lighting conditions. Rather than allowing manual control of Brightness and Contrast, DCE provides an Auto Balance feature. To get started with DCE s Auto Balance: 1. Click Load and browse to the required photo. 2. Select the required photo and click Open. 3. Click Fit to show the entire image. Some automatic optimisation will happen immediately. 4 The Windows Advisor June/July 05

5 Digital Images: Free Tools for Photo Editing D 26/5 4. Make adjustments to the image brightness using the Auto Balance and Midtones slider. After each change, you may want to use the Fit button to see the entire photo again. 5. Click Save. Note: this button actually acts as Save As and will not immediately overwrite the original file. Reduce Red Eye With FxFoto This is a much more complex tool than DCE. However, it is clearly still intended for photographic editing, rather than general graphic design. FxFoto s Remove Red Eye tab Here is an example of using FxFoto to reduce the red eye flash reflection in a portrait shot. 1. Click on Continue with FxFoto Standard to dismiss the Triscape splash screen. 2. Click File > Open or Add Image. 3. Browse to a photo requiring red eye reduction. 4. Select the photo and click Open. 5. Click the Remove Red Eye tab. 6. Leave Standard Sensitivity selected. This uses the colour of the subject s skin to set a redness threshold. 7. You will notice that the mouse cursor has now become a circle. Use the Correction Circle Width slider control to set the cursor so it is large enough to cover the red eye. The circle should be set to include a rim of skin pigment outside the eye. This is used by FxFoto is a sophisticated tool, aimed more at photographic editing than general graphic design. Reduce the red eye in portrait photos. The Windows Advisor June/July 05 5

6 D 26/6 Digital Images: Free Tools for Photo Editing the Standard Sensitivity function. 8. Position the circle mouse cursor over each eye and click. The result should be immediately apparent. 9. When you have finished the red eye reduction, click File > Save Image As 10. Make sure that the Composed Image button is selected. 11. Click Next. 12. Select Target given path file name. 13. Click on the Browse button and browse to the location for the modified photo. 14. In the File Name field enter a new name for the photo. 15. Click Save > Finish. The Gimp is a fully featured graphics package. This software takes longer to set up than the other two tools but its many features make it well worth the effort. Use The Gimp to Rotate The Gimp is very different from the other tools. It is not just a photography tool. This is a fully featured graphics package, similar to Adobe Photoshop. The Gimp is not as straightforward to install or configure as the other software. In fact, you have to install GTK (The Gimp ToolKit) before you can install the main application. The help file comes as a separate package and installation. Both of these supplementary installers can also be found on the CD that accompanies this update. The Gimp is a completely free piece of software, developed by a team of volunteers for the GNU Project. The licensing terms allow it to be used without any fees or royalties. The Gimp would sell for hundreds of pounds in the commercial sector. Software such as this tends to assume a certain level of technical knowledge. However, it isn t really that difficult to use and ultimately offers far more possibilities for image manipulation than any of the other tools. 6 The Windows Advisor June/July 05

7 Digital Images: Free Tools for Photo Editing D 26/7 Proceed as follows to rotate a photo in The Gimp: 1. Click File > Open. 2. In the Open Image dialogue, under the Folders column, double-click on the drive name and then each folder to find your photo. 3. Select your photo from the Files column. 4. Click OK. 5. Right-click on the photo, and click Image > Transforms > Rotate 90 degrees CW (or Rotate 90 degrees CCW or Rotate 180 degrees). 6. Click File > Save or Save As, as appropriate. Get Cropping With Irfanview Irfanview is a great image editor that offers almost as many features as a full graphics package. The major difference between this application and The Gimp or Paint Shop Pro, is its lack of drawing tools. However, it is easier to configure than The Gimp and is completely free, rather than being a trial version. The latest version of Irfanview can be found on the CD that accompanies this update. Crop away unwanted portions of an image with Irfanview. Cropping a photo with Irfanview In the following example, Irfanview is used to crop away the unwanted portion of an image, leaving just the subject. It The Windows Advisor June/July 05 7

8 D 26/8 Digital Images: Free Tools for Photo Editing can also be used to centre the subject in a poorly composed image: 1. Click File > Open. 2. Browse to the photo requiring cropping. 3. Click on the file to select it, and then click Open. 4. Click on the image to mark one of the corners of the photo region that is to be retained. Keep the mouse button pressed and then drag to select the required portion of the photo. You should see an outline around the area that will be kept after cropping. 5. Click Edit > Crop. The area outside the outline will be thrown away, only the inside will be left. Resize and resize canvas are not the same function. Create smaller file sizes for ing. Resize Your Photos With Paint Shop Pro Paint Shop Pro is a well-established graphics package, which is also ideally suited to photo editing. Paint Shop Pro can be found on the CD that accompanies this update. Paint Shop Pro is provided as a 60-day fully functional trial. It is not freeware but the trial period is sufficiently long that it is possible to really get a feel for the tool before making any purchase decision. In the following example, Paint Shop Pro is used to resize a photo. It should be noted that resizing is different from resizing the canvas Resizing the canvas leaves the original image the same size (a bigger canvas creates a margin around the original and a smaller canvas is similar to a cropping function), straightforward resizing is used to redimension the image itself. Commonly, you would be reducing the size of an image so that it is still of acceptable quality but at a smaller file size (to send it over the Internet, for example). 8 The Windows Advisor June/July 05

9 Digital Images: Free Tools for Photo Editing D 26/9 With Lock aspect ratio ticked, adjusting Width will automatically change Height. Paint Shop Pro s Resize dialogue To resize a photo: 1. Click File > Open. 2. Browse to the required photo for resizing. 3. Select the photo and click Open. 4. Click Image > Resize. 5. Under Pixel Dimensions, adjust the percentage Width values. Please note that if Lock aspect ratio is ticked, the Height value will adjust itself automatically. Selective Brightening With Picasa 2 This piece of freeware is developed by Google and offers a very contemporary approach to image manipulation. A link to this software is on the CD that accompanies this update. It is primarily an image management system but it also offers several easy to use editing functions. The focus is on automated image enhancement and the user has very little control over the settings. However, the results are often excellent and this simple approach is likely to appeal to many users. Picasa 2 offers an area-specific adjustment called Fill Light. This function brightens a photo that is too The Fill Light function allows you to brighten only those regions of the photo that require it. The Windows Advisor June/July 05 9

10 D 26/10 Digital Images: Free Tools for Photo Editing dark, while retaining any lighter areas. This avoids what happens when uniform brightening is applied to a photo and some details appear washed-out. Brightening only specific areas with Picasa 2 Changes made to photos in Picasa 2 do not affect the original image on your hard drive. To use Picasa 2 s Fill Light function: 1. Allow Picasa 2 to generate a list of all images on your computer. 2. When this process has completed, double-click on the thumbnail for an image that requires its background (or specific areas) brightening. 3. Adjust the Fill Light slider until the desired effect is a c h i e v e d. Please note: there is no need to save any changes made in Picasa 2. The software keeps its own record of edits and the originals are not affected. However, this does mean that to use the edited images in other programs, you will need to use the export option, which is available when an image is in the Picture Tray You should now be ready to get going with a bit of photographic editing. If this article has whetted your appetite, perhaps you will feel enthused to explore the functions offered by the free software on the CD that accompanies this update. 10 The Windows Advisor June/July 05

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