February 24th, 2011
Basic Photo Editing With Digital Image Editing Software Like GIMP
To improve photos that you take with your digital camera, you can use digital image editing software. Photoshop is perhaps the best known of these programs, but it's expensive, and there are other free options that will do the same things. A good example is GIMP. The only drawback is that the help documentation is very sparse and the tutorials on the GIMP website tend to be about advanced topics, so beginners can find it frustrating to get comfortable with this program.
One basic function is how to change image size. You can change this with the "Scale Image…"menu option. You only need to change the width or the length, not both, to get the best quality image because GIMP will scale the rest for you. To make jpegs smaller, you can save the image as a a different file extension, in the JPEG Save Dialog, you can opt for the GIMP defaults which will reduce the weight without distorting the image.