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Uniform gradation is what you will expect in a good digital photo but sometimes you will find blotchy or pale areas or specks in it. These problems are the digital photo noise. Digital photo noise may also be difference in the colour of an area of the photograph where there should have been smooth colour. […]

When you create your personal blog at different blog service providers, you may also like to add images to it. You can add images to your posts, your profile or other pages in your blog. Different blog sites have different rules and restrictions in case of images. Some will have restrictions in the format of

You have photos of your family, friends, your spouse or girlfriend. You want to carry them with you wherever you go. You can easily do it simply uploading your photos to your cell phone. Just create a photo album for cell phone and carry it. Creating a photo album for cell phone from a large

Sometimes when you scan an image, you scan more than the picture itself. For instance, very often you will notice strange lines over the scanned image or text. Such defects could be considered minor but still they are unpleasant to watch at. Or you will notice that the white background is actually dark yellowish, or

Red eyes may be a pretty unpleasant defect to deal with but blurred photos certainly beat them. Sometimes a photo is slightly blurred and with some (or more) efforts, you can make it look decently. But it is important to know that there are cases when the blur is so bad that it cannot be

At different time, you may need to back up your images. You have some very good images and you may need them at a later time in future. So, you have to back it up for future. Backing up will help you to avoid any problem or destruction of your most cherished and loved images.

A portfolio is very important for you if you are an artist or a designer. It will help you to display your work and get business for you. So, it should be flawless and professional in look. You have to make your portfolio fine looking without any noticeable problem in it. A flawless portfolio is

When you start with digital processing of your photos, one of the first terms you will hear is DPI. DPI stands for Dots Per Inch and it is related to the quality of your photos. Generally, the higher the DPI of an image, the better its quality because the image resolution is higher and the

Diversity is great but not when file formats are concerned. You will hardly appreciate diversity when you have tons of images in the most special format on Earth, which however is impossible to read with a standard image processing program. While there are many standard and widely used image formats, there is still a variety

Adding a signature to an image is one possibility for those who wish to add a personal touch to their images or to identify them for copyright purposes. Image signatures are a form of visible termarking, which is simply the addition of text, a logo or other markings that become part of the image and

Cell phones and PDAs are constantly improving their capabilities and nowadays a contemporary cell phone or a PDA has many times the processing power of the average computer 15 years ago. Cell phones have stopped being devices for making and receiving calls and are becoming more and more a small computer in your pocket. With

More and more people start a blog as a way to express themselves and communicate with other people. While there are many text-only blogs and this is perfectly acceptable, most blogging software allows to make your blog a richer experience by adding images and multimedia to your pages. Some people add images to their blogs

Scanners made it possible to store large books or whole libraries of books electronically. Scanning has many advantages – it is ecologically friendlier, you need millions times less less space to store books and it is much cheaper than to print books and texts. Well, reading a scanned book is not as convenient as reading

LaTeX is a powerful typesetting program that can be of great value in a number of contexts. Since it is free software, it has a distinct appeal to those who have a strict budget or who simply do not want to spend large amounts of money for the ability to prepare professional-looking documents. Also, LaTeX

Just about every small business in the world uses a word processing program and works to get documents, press releases and online content just perfect. But then graphic files, photos and scanned images are just inserted into the documents without any of the same focus on details. Yet graphic images can often have a huge

We frequently have people asks us “Why are there so many graphic file formats?” which usually means they are really asking “Why can’t there just be one format?” One format, would certainly be easier some of the time – but there are many more times when it would be very limiting. Many digital cameras and

Digital cameras are becoming cheaper and cheaper every day. At the same time the cameras have more features and take photographs that have a much better quality than even the cameras made last year. However, these cameras may bring surprises. Today’s cameras can save photos with great resolution. However, if you plan to post them

Social media websites like MySpace.com have become very popular. Most MySpace users quickly figure out the news and chatting features, but uploading the photographs can be a bit harder. MySpace limits you to photographs that are less than 5MB per photo and the photograph has to have a horizontal width of less than 600 pixels.

Special-purpose hardware that is designed for collecting images, whether the hardware is a digital camera for consumers or a more sophisticated image acquisition system for technical applications, may use a data format that is not recognized by typical image viewing or editing packages. As a result, the use of such non-standard image formats may make

Images signatures are sometimes regarded as a way to spoil a photo but this is not always the case. For instance, the author’s signature on an image is a proof of the images’s authenticity, protects it from unauthorized copying and use and promotes the author. But sometimes there are unwanted image signatures, that actually spoil