Digital Photo Forum

Photos capture the special moments, as life cannot be set on rewind mode. We all love to see old and new photos. The web provides the facility of Photo forums. Through these forums, you can share your snaps with all your loved ones around the world. It helps the close ones to feel connected despite of the distances.

Have you faced difficulties in posting photos on the web? Well, it is nothing unusual. While you read this article further, you will learn the easy tips and tricks to prepare your photos. Most web sites where you post your pictures are the digital photo forums. You can even upload your pictures at the social networks. Here is a quick summary to organize photos for the web.

It is important to know that photos from a digital camera are in the JPEG format. Photography forums could require you to make quite a few changes in the existing images. With every correction that you make in this kind of file; you will lose the clarity from the image. Thus it is necessary to make as many changes in one go.

Make a copy of the original image. Make all the possible changes in the copy and not the original photo. It is best not to save JPEG files repeatedly. Reduce pixel dimensions and file size to tailor make the best fit for the photography forums.

If you are scanning an image, use the negative source or slide and not the printed picture. Negative source gives better results post corrections.

Basically, you may be required to crop, rotate, resize or sharpen the photos prior to uploading them to any digital photo forums. You can perform all of these actions in Abode Photoshop, Corel Photo-Paint, Shop Pro, Ulead PhotoImpact and Jasc Paint. Each of these software are user friendly.



Rotating, cropping and resizing is followed by color corrections and some other final touch ups. All of it can be done by following the instruction in the software that you are using. In case you are facing difficulties, take to some online photography chat.

Correction of photographs prepares the photos for upload in bare basics. Add some fun element and makes pictures more attractive and embellished. You can add beautiful frames, give edge effects, add sepia tones and more. All of it will make your photos memorable in photo forums.

Lastly, you should sharpen the image only shortly before you are planning to save it. Make a loss free copy of corrected pictures. That is not all; make sure you take a preview of the image after you are done with all the corrections and additions. For best results, become your own photography critique.

There is one essential point which requires a special mention here. While you are having fun in learning and correcting images, you are getting used to software. It is not necessary to use expensive software. Use software you are handy in. Free software are as good as the paid ones.

Therefore, after a family celebration or a vacation, you can now easily share your photos on digital photo forums.