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Photo Media Stock
Yesterday was such a miserable grey, windy, rainy day but a perfect day to work indoors preparing images for the new stock photo site, Photo Media Stock. Just because you have shot a picture with your digital camera and it looks great on the camera screen it doesn’t mean its ready to be uploaded to a Stock site. There is always some editing to do beforehand.
Photo Editing for Photo Media Stock
On most digital cameras there are different setting for different phoptographic situations and its well worth paying attention to the guidelines as outlined in a manual until you get well accustomed to the camera settings. What you see on the camera screen is not neccessarily what you will see if you then edit your photo with a photo editor.
My Nikon Coolpix P90 stores images in the .JPG format which means that every time the image is saved the is a loss of picture data. When you save an image it is compressed, the jpg compression loses some some image data in order to create a smaller image file. To avoid ‘loss’ of image quality its is better to upload images to a photo editor such as Lightroom 3 and do the neccessary editing. Once the editing is done to avoid loss of quality a good way to store the image is in the TIFF lossless image format as there is no compression with this format and the same image can be used again for further editing. To save an image for use on the web it is best saved in the .jpg format which is accepted most everywhere, just like the one here.
Photo Editing with Lightroom 3
With a good photo editor such as Lightroom you can correct your photos; whether its an underexposed image, or you need to correct the colour balance, cover up small blemishes or even sharpen blurry edges. These are only just some of the tools that are available to help edit photos in Lightroom 3. There are of course the Lightroom presets which can be employed to enhance a photo as opposed to using the settings to develop your own photo preset. Depending on the photo I use either or, or develop a user preset.
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Author:
Zo Nicholas, Media, Marketing, Publishing.
Co-Founder of YORGOO, Ycademy,YORGOO Press and Semiomantics.
