Image Manipulation with Phoenix
Mike Peutz · Apress eBooks · 2009
Digital and cell phone cameras changed the face of photography forever. Developing photos from film used to be expensive and time-consuming, and photo correction was basic. Many of the tools in digital editing programs come from this early photo manipulation. Dodge and burn meant cutting stencils from paper and manually over and under exposing sections of film, which was a tedious and imprecise process. Colored-glass filters were used to adjust the hue and saturation in a photo; to remove an object from a photo literally took a brush to manually paint it out. It has gotten much easier in the computer age. Photos are digitized, turned into discrete points of color and value. These digital pixels are much easier to manipulate than film and negatives. Photo manipulation has become cheaper and more accessible. Furthermore, with the advent of the digital camera, cheap memory, and photo-hosting sites, digital photography is in reach of the average person. No longer do we carry around huge SLR cameras and canisters of film; we can now pull out our cell phones and snap a picture. Our world is instantly saved. The only downside to this accessible and immediate medium is that it sacrifices quality. The average point-andshoot digital camera does not take images of quality on par with film cameras. This is where Phoenix can give you the power to fix the quality and enhance details. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.