subject: Techniques Employed in Stock Photography [print this page] Stock photography is defined as a set of photographs which are licensed to serve some specific purposes. This option eliminates the need to hire a photographer to do the job. This can be best used for creative assignments and can be easily seen through searchable databases found online. Some of the largest stock photographers online are Corbis Images and Getty Images .
Stock Photography Techniques
The most modern stock photography sites offer a list of techniques to use in this work of art.
1. Retouching Techniques. These techniques are often employed in blurry pictures. Sometimes when the image is taken via a dark-lit room, the tendency is that the pictures will turn out to have marks on them. With retouching techniques, it will be easy solving the problem spotted on the image.
There are some types of software that can be used in order to create the retouching technique on the stock photos. One is called the Adobe Photoshop. This one comes with updated tools that can help you create better images out of stock photos. The great thing about this is you will be taught techniques on how to do it. This comes in several applications as well.
A specific Photoshop application that can be used is called the Clone Tool. This one can eliminate defects such as hair and spots. Healing Brush Tools and History Brush Tools can be of great help as well.
2. Cropping Techniques. In here, you start resizing portrait and landscape photos. From there, you can start using the crop a photo technique. This can be used when you want to remove some views that are not useful in the background.
When you will try to browse online, you will find out some types of photo cropping software as well. For one, there is the Photo Crop Editor, an Interactive Photo Software that can help you select specific objects and remove unwanted parts of the image. In another, there is the Click 2 Crop software, one that can be used not only for cropping but for adding borders to images.
3. Photo Resizing. Make your images smaller or even larger via this technique. In here, the Digital Photo Resizer for Windows can be used. With this software, you can resize all JPEG, BMP and GIF images.
Often, you can use Microsoft Windows Office Picture Manager to do all the jobs mentioned above. Just simply click on the 'Edit Pictures' section then choose from the editing techniques found on the right side of the page.
