Chapter 13

Image Editing

Every digital image that has been captured can be enhanced further so that it may be viewed in its optimum state for the intended output device. Whether images are destined to be viewed in print or via a monitor screen, the image usually needs to be resized, cropped, retouched, color-corrected, sharpened and saved in an appropriate file format. The original capture will usually possess pixel dimensions that do not exactly match the requirements of the output device. In order for this to be corrected the user must address the issues of ‘Image Size’, ‘Resampling’ and ‘Cropping’.

This chapter focuses its attentions on the standard adjustments made to all images when optimum quality is required. Standard image adjustments ...

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