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Microsoft Picture It! Companion Guide
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2 Making the Most of Your Camera
No matter how polished and creative you are as a photographer, Picture It! is a
valuable tool for helping you get the most out of your photos. With Picture It!
features, you can easily correct common photo problems such as red eye and
overexposure. And you can use features like filters and layers to create photos
strikingly different from your originals.
Although Picture It! is a powerful photo-editing program, it’s important to get
the best photo you can at the time you take it. Picture It! can do a lot to correct
minor problems with the originals, but certain problems, such as severely
blurred or underexposed photos, cannot easily be fixed with computer software.
And if you can develop your photography skills to take higher-quality photos,
you can spend your time doing creative photo editing with Picture It!, rather
than fixing mistakes that can be avoided.
The extreme blurriness and lighting problems of this photo would be difficult—if not impos-
sible—to overcome with image-editing software.
Many cameras available today offer a high degree of automation: just turn the
camera on and press the shutter, and the camera does the rest. While this
approach is quick and easy, it isn’t perfect in all situations. As a photographer,
you can learn to fine-tune the settings on your camera to gain greater control of
the camera to get the best possible photo for each situation.
With the range of cameras available—from basic point-and-shoot models to
professional SLR (single-lens reflex) cameras—this chapter cannot cover specifics
for all features available on all cameras. But this chapter does provide a foundation
of photography concepts that are vital to taking consistently good photographs.
Opening photos
from your digital
camera
For information on
opening photos from
your camera in Picture
It!, see the digital
camera section in
chapter 3, “Opening
Photos in Picture It!”