Photography 101, On the Editing Floor: Post-Production

So you went out, bought your camera, took your photos (paying heed to lighting and composition!). Now you’re ready to edit them. This has become increasingly easy to do if you’re working with digital photography. There are many high-quality photo editors available. 

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Adobe Lightroom 4 is software used by many professional photographers, it works on a Mac or PC computer and allows you to run batch edits across a large collection of photographs at one time.  Lightroom allows you to tweak and improve your photographs but retains the original file for archival purposes.  Adobe Photoshop is also a popular choice for editing your photos (there are many versions available from consumer to pro level).  Picassa is free software that allows you to do some quick, easy edits (add colour filters, adjust saturation, the “I am feeling lucky” edit option will quickly fix any glaring problems with your photos).  iPhoto for Mac users is easy to use and allows you to quickly share photos with friends, save photos in web-friendly file sizes, and upload your photos to social media websites. 

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