Wynena Cox

MEDT 7466
Dr. George Bradford
June 26, 2014

A6 PET PHOTO EDITING TECHNIQUES

Part A: Image File Formats Best Use and How to Change Between
Saving your images in a variety of different file formats can be easy using Adobe
Photoshop and Microsoft Paint. You can save your images in the following formats: JPG (Joint
Photographic Expert Group), GIF (Graphic Interchanges Format), PNG (Portable Network
Graphics) TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) and BMP (Standard Windows Image Format).
Here are two samples on how to save you image file formats:

Sample A

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Save your digital images by choose a
format from the Format menu, look for
specify, filename and location. Then in
the Save As dialong box, select your
saving option. Click Save!

You select file format of choice in Adobe Photoshop

Sample B

WINDOWS
In the appearing dialog, you can choose
where to save your image format. You
can also browse in the main window or
find a location through the top dropdown menu label in the Save In. The
Save as type drop-down and the file
types are shown in Sample B.

You can select file format of choice and save in

Windows
Digital images can be formatted and used for multiple purposes, which the chart below
gives you examples of Digital Photography Formats using Adobe Photoshop and Windows.
Here is the original digital image.
File Name:

DSCN1082

File Type:

JPG

File Size:
5.57 MB
(5,850,334 bytes)
File Date:

June 25, 2014

Digital Photography Format Chart

TYPE

SIZE

DIFFERENCE

JPG:
Joint
Photographic
Expert Group

4.6MB

0%

GIF:
Graphic
Interchange
Format

6.0MB

+9%

PNG:
Portable
Network
Graphics

20.8MB

+320%

TIFF:
Tagged Image
File Format

31.5

PIXELATION AT
400X

USES
*Used for
photo images
graphics and
text data
*small files like
emails and
memory cards.
*Lossy format
some images
will be lost
while
compressed or
saved
*Used for
online videos,
graphics and
support
animation
*Used for
online images
with 1 to 8 bits
with limited to
only 256 color
max.
*Can replace
GIF format and
is more
modern format
*It supports
animations
*Uses ZIP
compression
which is
lossless
*Effect Color
*Desktop
scanner can
produce TIFF
Files
*They can
support paint,
image-editing,
and page
layout
applications.

BMP:
Standard
Windows Image
Format

40.8MB

*Recommend
for Windows
*Its used for
icons or
screen-grabs
*Has a large
file size due to
lack of
compression
(low-ration run
length
encoding), not
good to
transfer images
to internet

Part B: Editing Digital Images and Applying a Creative Manipulation

Today, most people take pictures using a digital camera and using digital photography
software like Microsoft Word to make changes to their photos. The changes consist of size,
shape, cropping, orientation, colors, sharpness, brightness, Red eye correction, and etc The
digital photography software is a great way to make corrections to the photo and add creative
flourish photo.
File Name:

DSCN1082

File Type:

JPG

File Size:
5.57 MB
(5,850,334bytes)
File Date:

June 25, 2014

Most of the email services have file attachment size limits and sometimes is a problem
when you are trying email a photo with high resolution and large size of a picture. The photo
can be resized by compressing the photo. Using Microsoft Word, click on Compress Picture
under the Picture tool bar and select your photo size.

1. Click picture that you want to

compress
2. Click Compress Picture
3. Select Apply to Selected
Picture
4. Click Options, Compress
Options, then Save.

There are many other ways to edit your photo using Digital Images, your photo editing
has features like rotating images, cropping images, color adjusting, adding grayscale to photo,
auto/manual sharpness correction, auto/manual brightness corrections, contract correction, and
red eye removal in your photos.
Using Microsoft Paint Software
Rotating Image Feature
1. Open the image in Microsoft Paint.
2. Click Image
3. Click Flip/Rotate
4. Once youve clicked Flip/Rotate this
open a box that allows you to flip an
image horizontally, vertically, or rotate
the image by 90, 180, or 270 degrees.
Original Size: 5.6MB
Rotated Size: 5.6MB
Crop Image Feature
1. Open the image in Microsoft paint.
2. 2. Click on the select tool and drag it to
the portion you want to crop.
3. Once selected click Edit and then copy.
4. Click and Click New.
5. In the new image click Edit and click
Paste.
6. Save the cropped image under a
different name or save as.

Original Size: 5.6MB

Cropped Size: 1.2MB

Color Adjustment Feature

Microsoft Paint is very limited to Color
Adjustment, but Adobe Photoshop gives you a
variety of choice of color adjustment. They
have hue, saturation, vibrancy and auto color
adjustment choices.

Original Size:
5.6MB
Re-Colored size: 4.4MB
Grayscale Feature
Microsoft uses color adjustment features to
change picture to grayscale. You reduce the
saturation and depending on how far you go,
you can get black and white image.

Original Size:
5.6MB
Re-Colored size: 4.5MB
Brightness Feature
Microsoft uses brightness adjustment features
to make the picture lighter. You reduce the
brightness and depending on how far you go,
you can get dark or white image.
Original Size:
5.6MB
Re-Colored size: 4.4MB
Contrast Feature
This feature is similar to the Brightness
feature, it helps enhance to image features in
the photo.

Original Size:
5.6MB
Re-Colored size: 6.2MB
Red Eye Removal Feature
1. Open the image in Microsoft Word.
2. Click Image
3. Click Edit Picture
4. Select Red Eye Removal
5. Target Eyes, click on eye until eye is
not Red Eye.

Reflection
This assignment has given me a depth lesson on Images Filing Formatting and Imaging
Editing. Using a camera is a lot of fun and gives you a more depth concept about taking photos.
I have learned there are many different ways to save your images filing in different formats like
JPG (Joint Photographic Expert Group), GIF (Graphic Interchanges Format), PNG (Portable
Network Graphics) TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) and BMP (Standard Windows Image
Format). This is great information to know if youre saving your files. Editing photos is another
story, Adobe Photoshop, Windows Paint, and Windows Word has you exploring and
experiences what you can do and what you cannot do with the editing software. Working with
editing software can be simple and a little frustrating at time. Learning new techniques and new
digital software helped me adventure into two different areas of photo editing, image filing
formatting and new editing software.

References
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