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Microsoft Digital Image Standard User’s Manual
No matter how polished and creative you are as a photographer, Digital Image
is a valuable tool for helping you get the most out of your pictures. With Digital
Image features, you can easily correct common photo problems such as red
eye and overexposure. And you can use features like filters and layers to create
photos strikingly different from your originals.
Although Digital Image is a powerful photo-editing program, it’s important
to get the best photo you can at the time you take it. Digital Image can do a
lot to correct minor problems with the originals, but certain problems, such as
severely blurred or underexposed photos, cannot easily be fixed with computer
software. And if you can develop your photography skills to take higher-quality
photos, you can spend your time doing creative photo editing with Digital
Image, rather than fixing avoidable mistakes.
Many cameras available today offer a high degree of automation: just turn
the camera on and press the shutter, and the camera does the rest. While this
approach is quick and easy, it isn’t perfect in all situations. As a photographer,
you can learn to fine-tune the settings on your camera to gain greater control of
the camera to get the best possible photo for each situation.
Because of the range of cameras available—from basic point-and-shoot
models to professional SLR (single-lens reflex) cameras—this chapter cannot
cover specifics for all features available on all cameras. But it will provide a
foundation of photography concepts that are vital to taking consistently good
photographs.
The first section of this chapter contains information specific to digital cameras:
concepts such as resolution and compression that don’t have direct counterparts
in film photography. Later sections cover universal photography concepts that
apply to both film and digital cameras.
Taking Great Pictures
Opening photos
from your digital
camera
For information about
opening pictures from
your camera in Digital
Image, see the digital
camera section in the
"Opening and Importing
Pictures" chapter.