When you make an image smaller you may interfere with the resolution making the final image take on a blurry appearance. With large, clear images this can be devastating to the effect of the image.

Fortunately Adobe Photoshop has the ability to fix this issue with its advanced editing tools.

To perform this function you must own at least the CS version of Photoshop. If you don’t have this version, you may want to get it as it has far advanced features. Buying the software will get rid of the limitations you may have when editing your pictures.

To reduce the size of a picture without losing too much resolution go to Image> Image Size. Click on Resample Image and then pick Bicubic Sharper from the options. This will produce the best results when resizing an image as it significantly reduces the blurring of the image when you change its size.

If you want to enlarge a photograph without losing too much resolution select the Bicubic Smoother.

This tool is so useful for resizing that you may want to select it as the default so that it is automatically selected when you start your Adobe Photoshop up. To do this go to Preferences> General where you can select Image Interpolation. Here you just choose Bicubic Sharper from among the selection and it should be set as your new default.

Repeating the resizing process too many times will increase the resolution loss giving a blurry appearance. To avoid this only resize the image once. If you want try out different sizes, use a copy of the original image and when you find the right measurements, simply apply them to the original image once you’re done.

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My nephew made the leap and finally bought Photoshop. He had been saving up for a while now, and believed it would make his life a lot easier. He saw a future where he would make top quality images by merely thinking about it. Just close your eyes hard enough and ‘poof’, it was done. Then he sat down to use Photoshop, and realized he had no idea what to do!

You shouldn’t have to go through this tragedy. You deserve better. Photoshop may be expensive, but anyone who knows how to properly use it will tell you it’s worth every cent. Like anything else you will have to make mistakes and learn by yourself, exploring the interface of the software. One way to help is to go to ‘Preferences’. Here you can improve the performance of your Photoshop.

The color algorithm that the program uses is decided by the color picker. Most user select Adobe or Windows. The algorithm for resizing an image is chosen by the ‘Image Interpolation’. Again, most people will use the ‘Bicubic Interpolation’.

Next you will notice the “History Log”. This allows you to save all the steps you used in the creation of an image. Here you have some choices … you can either record the start time and date of every editing session with the “Sessions Only” selection. The “Concise” selection records details on every editing session on the file. The other option is the “Detailed”, which records the same information as in the ‘Concise’ selection … plus information such as the path of the file and an account of every edit made to the file.

These brief examples can point you in the right direction, but the best way to learn about Photoshop is to experiment and try things out for yourself. Play around with all Photoshop’s features and discover great new ways to alter your image. To learn in more detail you can read about Photoshop or take an online video tutorial which will show you the step-by-step process for achieving a specific effect. If you keep at it, you’ll be making those top quality pictures in no time!

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Basically a digital camera is a device use to capture pictures without the use of film. The increased weight is because these cameras often use heavy batteries even though they have fewer moving parts. The storage used is similar to other computer based products so they are compatible with may other types of media we use to view images. This computer language is called pixels, tiny colored dots represented by ones and zeros that make up the picture that you just captured.

These cameras still use lenses in much the same way that conventional cameras do. Instead of film the digital camera captures the light with the aid of a system which records the light rays digitally. A feature of the better quality versions is they have a sensor that converts light into electrical charges using a different system to their less expensive cousins. Some people believe the device used to capture an image in cheaper cameras the CMOS will eventually be the replacement for the better CCD but this is highly doubtful.
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My girlfriend and I are getting ready for a friend’s wedding. She usually does some cool little gift packages for the events, but this time we were looking for something new… while searching I found this great article on Wedding Photo Albums…

The only real difference between modern wedding photo albums and versions from fifty years ago is that they would have contained monochrome images; technology has started to give us alternatives though! Probably the same etiquette that dictated how the bride’s mother was shown in the album will be used today so you can expect to see her as the first photo in her wedding dress. After this photo there are usually a few images of them somewhere close by that provides a beautiful backdrop to really show them off.

The wedding party has at least one photo in the most modern wedding photo album just like the pictures a generation ago because the party makes a beautiful picture with their matching dresses and sleek tuxedoes. The whole group is made up of friends and family of the bride and groom; there is probably a very similar picture in their parent’s album. The bride should then, by tradition, have some pictures taken of her and her attendants for the day.

The family of the groom poses for a picture that ends up in the album, and there is another one of the bride with her family. Wedding photo albums should also have a mention as they need to be as elaborate as the ceremony otherwise they will not do justice to the care which is taken over the photographs. Wedding photo albums are normally elaborate to complement the ceremony itself with elaborate covers that tend to be in white.

It is just as important for the contents of the wedding album to impress and this is achieved by clever display techniques that show the day off at its best. Most modern wedding photographers will also be able to supply in digital form on a cd or dvd. Most modern couples will have both the traditional album and the newer digital versions together because unlike the former, compact discs etc. can hold hundreds of images.

It is now usual for the bride and groom to make a cd rom thereby providing a digital wedding photo album available to every guest as a permanent reminder of their special day. The photos on the disc can be easily printed out by anyone who wants a copy framed on their favorite table. This is a very versatile method of distributing images that will last for many years.