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With traditional photography using an SLR camera, you just have to be sure with your frame, your lighting, your exposure time, in other words you really need an expert to get good SLR photography to produce.

Digital photography is a bit more smoothly. While it always helps to start with a fairly clear picture, with digital photography, your photos bring out the best.

Professional digital photography software, including Photoshop, will let you do amazing things with your photos. Besides the basic fixes, you can try all different styles and creative with your image. Photoshop is a good option if you can afford the software.

But there are many free tools for editing your photos, a search online “Photo Editing Tools” and you will come with numerous options. My favorite free editing tool Picasa 3, not only provide you with the basic tools you need, it works great for organizing your photos and share them with friends and family.

Which ever editor you use, follow these four easy digital photography secrets.

Straighten Your Image

Any good editor allows you to make your image right. This is very critical as an unbalanced picture, unless it is intended to be that way, an amateur feel to it. You want your pictures as professional looking as possible, right? I have both Photoshop and Picasa 3, and I actually prefer the Straighten tool in Picasa 3. It is very easy to use, and you lose none of the picture the way you do when you use the straightening tool in Photoshop.

Crop Your Image

Now that your image is straightened, if your image is perfect, leave it! But if there’s something you do not want in your image, crop it out! The focus of your photo to your topic, if too much activity around the subject, crop the image down, so the focus is where you want it to be.

Customize your Contrast

Adjust the darkness / lightness of your digital photos. If you use Picasa 3, open your image, and an edit box will appear on the left. Click “Auto Contrast” to see what an effect it has on your image. If you find you do not like the effect just click “Undo Auto Contrast”.

Set your colors

Sometimes the colors are not exactly come as sharp and clear as you want. You can do amazing things with the editors for this problem! Picasa 3 has a very simple “Auto Color” tool that can bring out the best in your image.

If you choose to use your Picasa 3 image editing, if you are already using the four steps you need to save changes. To do this, click the “Back to Library” button in the upper left corner. Look to the right, and you will see a button “save to disk” to see. Click that button and all your changes are applied to your image. It’s so easy!

Picasa 3 has other great features for editing, too. It offers a red-eye tool to narrow the search to remove red eye from your image, and also a tool for filling light images was just a little too dark.

So now you know four digital photography secrets that the quality of your digital photos will improve. Give them a try and you will be amazed how much better your photos will look!