Difference between revisions of "Simple Image Editing, Cropping Suggestions"

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<code>''Nowadays, 16:9, or the widescreen format is the most popular one but keep in mind that anything else but a TV, most display, projectors, require a different aspect ratio. Sometimes your platform will adjust your image, at other times you have to process the image yourself. It is advisable to experiment with different aspect ratios.''</code>
<code>''Nowadays, 16:9, or the widescreen format is the most popular one but keep in mind that anything else but a TV, most display, projectors, require a different aspect ratio. Sometimes your platform will adjust your image, at other times you have to process the image yourself. It is advisable to experiment with different aspect ratios.''</code>


== Flipping, Mirorring, Rotation ==
== Flipping (Mirorring), Rotation ==
Flipping, mirorring and rotation are highly common editing operations requ
Flipping, mirorring and rotation are highly common editing operations requ


Your pictures may need to be flipped vertically or horizontally when you want to show a different position of your subject or show a different scene arrangement. Fli
Your pictures may need to be flipped vertically or horizontally when you want to show a different position of your subject or show a different scene arrangement. Flipping refers to a change around the imaginary axis of your photo. A horizontal flip ends up with a picture that has the upper and lower side switched while a vertical one ends up with a similar effect, but having the left and right side switched.
 
Rotations are highly useful operations that are applied to correct the way in which an image is shown, to use a specific part of an image better in another composition or to straighten the image slightly. The most common rotations are in increment of 90 degrees. Such a rotation ends up with a horizontal image being shown vertically or a vertical one shown horizontally. This is highly useful when you need to emphasize a specific part of an image and use it another composition. Considering you still have enough pixels left on the axis on which your picture is required to be very wide, you can successfully make a later crop and end up with a good result. Rotations at 180 and 270 degrees are useful in specific circumstances such as when you want to alter also the orientation of the image more than a simple clockwise or counterclockwise operation would achieve.
 
For smartphones it is highly useful to correct a wrong orientation hint by a simple editing in any program, as it avoids the unpleasant aspect of an image that is presented horizontally or vertically instead of the other way around. From time to time, and particularly with less swift movements, you may end up with an image that has the wrong orientation indicated int the file, and as more software takes into account this hinting you may need to correct orientation.
 
<code>''Always experiment with flipping and rotation, particularly early on, to develop a perspective on what you can easily achieve. Most rotation and flipping operations do not affect the image quality in any way, including for JPEGs, as software algorithms evolved to directly apply such operations without saving a re-compressed image afterwards''</code>


==Light, colour, contrast adjustments==
==Light, colour, contrast adjustments==

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