‘Post Processing Images’ is the preparation of your image for final presentation; getting it ready for your audience
Post Processing images
After you have taken your photograph a whole world of changes can be applied.
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General and basic
Definition: Post-Production; Processing; Post-Processing; (Post Processing Images) (A Glossary entry)
Definition: Crop; Cropping; Cropped (A Glossary entry)
Definition: Cloning; To Clone; Cloned; Clone Tool;
Getting started with cloning
File format – which type is right for photo-editing
Specific articles on post processing images
Colour
Are Your Colours Too Colourful? Don’t Over-Saturate!
The Red-Eye Effect
Software
Irfanview: A great image viewer (free – for your own use)
GIMP – A sophisticated and free image editor 
Presentation
Diptych
Triptych
Quadtych
Polyptych
Definition: Vignette; Vignetting
Post processing
Today, using digital techniques, your editing options are unlimited. You might do nothing. However, simple edits, exposure control, colour adjustments, using photo-filters, cloning, compositing and many other types of edit all have a part to play. Consequently, your image can end up totally different to the original photograph. Post processing is a really rewarding and creative aspect of working with images in general. There is lots to learn. And, lots to have fun with! Developing your photographs has never been so interesting in the whole history of photography.
Post processing goes back to the time when all photographs were processed using light sensitive chemicals. Originally, editing was limited to ways of affecting the chemical process, or by interrupting how light interacted with the chemicals. Today, all that has changed thanks to huge technology improvements. Consequently, editing and post processing is limited only by your imagination. Digital techniques applied in powerful editors like GIMP (a sophisticated, free photo editor) or Photoshop (the photo-editor industry standard) offer unprecedented control over your image improvement and finishing.
Damon Guy (Netkonnexion)
See also: Editors ‘Bio’.
