Photo editing! Remember when you had to take pictures with a camera with actual film? And then you didn't even know how well the pictures turned out until you waited about a week to go down to the photo store and have them developed. I actually remember that time. I was only a kid then, however, and I didn't have any real need to edit my pictures so it wasn't that big of a deal that I couldn't edit them easily.
Those days are gone now. Taking and viewing pictures is INSTANT. Editing pictures is much easier and there are many, many free and paid programs you can use to edit pictures. One very good one is called Pixlr and it is free. I tried it out the other day and it is better than I thought a free program would be. I had become used to the very limited free Paint program that comes with Windows and it wasn't very good. I was pleased to see that Pixlr gives you many of the options such as resizing, rasturizing, and texturing that you can get in a pay program like Photoshop. I played around with Pixlr and used a photo to add text. Very simple but important in order to add things like photo credit.
Later, I tried editing an image with more than just text. I added some blur effects, some colour to a specific spot on the picture and some texturizing. I still wish I knew more about what do to to get the outcomes I want but there are numerous help features that can get me where I want to be.
As for where I got the picture, there are a number of sites on the Internet where you can get pictures that are called CREATIVE COMMONS. That means they are available for use in your own way but some of them require you to include photo credit. None the less, it is great to see that there are a lot of pictures available through creative commons. Some sites that can be used for this are: Creative Commons, Compfight and Diigo.
I am excited about the opportunities that are present now for taking pictures and editing them and the new opportunities that are sure to be developed!
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