Digital Photographs

Although digital photography has rapidly replaced film-based images, the basic rules for handling images are still the same. Photographers who formerly supplied transparencies now provide digital images, which eliminates the scanning step. While direct digital images lack the visible grain that would be apparent in extreme enlargements of transparencies, some digital images may still exhibit pixelation when greatly enlarged (depending on the nature of the subject).

Since there is no film original to rescan, and it’s rarely feasible to reshoot, you may occasionally be forced to enlarge digital images. Fractal enlargement plug-ins such as Genuine Fractals from onOne Software (www.ononesoftware.com) may give you better results ...

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