Hi i've just had some of my old negatives digitised, and i'm looking at having some enlarged for wall hanging. For those that aren't brilliant complete pictures, how do i go about cropping or specifying the desired part of the photo, so that it can then be enlarged to a certain size? Do i need to keep picture ratio's and be wary of loss of quality by enlarging too much? thanks
Once you get the newly digital photos in your graphics program, you should be able to do whatever you wish with them. All of the necessary tools to do that should be readily available. If you are unsure, you can print them out, do the approximate crop, dodge, burn with a pen/pencil and take it and the pic burned on a CD to your local camera store and they will be happy to do it for you.
too technical lol and if i don't know what any of those technical terms mean? i have a basic nikon editor that will allow contrast and rgb changes and that's about it. What do the dodge and burn tools do? thanks
lowlife there is a great free image editing program called GIMP at http://www.gimp.org/. It allows you to crop, resize and much much more. Definitely worth a look BTW the GIMP documentation for cropping and resizing is here: http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-crop.html
'Dodge' should make the area you chose lighter. 'Burn' should make the area more defined, darker. I was talking about if you had to print the picture and take it to a camera shop. You could tell them what you wanted them to do if you didn't want or didn't have a graphics program on your computer.
Photo .........fixing free program Here is the name of a program, I use, download it free. Picasa2.......it does lots for your photos. bsewnsew
There's a very good version of GIMP for Windows at http://plasticbugs.com/?p=300 that includes the de-weirdifier module. It's a little easier to use than the standard GIMP implementation.
