Basic photo editing tasks

This article shows examples of some basic photo editing tasks, including zooming, cropping, file size reduction ,removing a background, and changing the contrast on part of a picture.

 

Task

Original Image

New Image

Zoom in and crop part of the picture

Note that the cropping can be done in various shapes.

 Grace the ferret's picture before editing Grace the ferret's head after zooming in, cropping it, changing the borders to circular, and making the background transparent.

Zoom in and crop part of the picture

This cropping can be done to a random aspect ratio, or it can be set up for specific photo sizes, like 5x7, 3x5, 4x6, 8x10, etc.

 Grace the ferret's picture before editing Grace the ferret after editing: zoomed in on Grace, cropped out the parts of the images where the focus did not lie
     

File size reduction so a file can be put on the web

 Large file - Image of Anna in her Harry Potter costume posing for a picture of her Small file - The same image, Anna in her Harry Potter outfit posing for a picture of her flying and trying to capture the flying snitch, was made smaller, down to 221K, about 1/5 the size of the original, for web or email use.

Pull the main image out and placing it on a different background

 Anna flying, playing Quidditch,and about to catch the golden snitch Anna Flying and playing Quidditch about to catch the golden snitch on a different background and the snitch was brought closer to her.

Change brightness and contrast for the whole picture or part of a picture

For this picture, only the girl's face was changed.

 Darth Vader and Anna with washed out face Darth Vader and Anna: Anna's face and neck was selected and the brightness level was reduced and contrast increased a bit so that her face could be seen.
     

Other tasks include:

  • Red eye removal for humans
  • Blue eye removal for pets
  • Altering a picture, like removing a cable from a podium