Doctoring photos

With the resolution on even quite modestly priced digital cameras going up seemingly by the day it’s now possible to retouch photos pretty much the same way as the professionals do.

Older cameras couldn’t really zoom in close enough with the image to allow the fine changing of individual pixels without it being noticed on prints produced from the cameras but these days 8mp cameras are commonplace and at that level of resolution there’s quite a lot you can do on the original without it being noticeable on any prints produced. Fortunately the price of the technology that you need to make the adjustments to the images has also crashed in price so, if you’re into photography, it’s viable to consider buying one of the digital airbrush devices and start playing around with it.

I’ve got one myself and have barely touched the surface of what’s possible. Whilst you can do some of the retouching via a mouse to really make the most of the software available you really need to look at graphics pads which are quite simply fantastic and that’s even at the beginner level – a few months use of it and you’ll not know how you did without it.

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