Quick Photo Adjustment

I process a lot of pictures for web and email. Perfection is rarely my goal, but good results are. This is an explaination of how to quickly make the most of your images when your plan is to quickly and easily share with others via web.

The Original Image

99.9% of original images need cropping. This is the first step when working with an image.

Here is a sample that we will play with (My wonderful wife at Northstar):

Not a very good shot, but let's assume that it is the only one we had and for some reason everyone had to see it.

The original file is actually 2736x3648 (10Mb) but I reduced it to 600x800 with bicubic downsampling so that it would fit well on this page. No other changes were made to the image.