| Don't ruin your amazing UFO pictures by sizing down | | | | pictures on a memory card. A lower quality setting |
| the resolution within your original image. Your resolution | | | | means a lot more pictures. Buy another memory card |
| will never come back once you close out of | | | | if you want to take more pictures or buy several. |
| Photoshop, or any other photo editing software | | | | They can be inexpensive. |
| program. | | | | Refer to your digital camera user manual if you can't |
| It is very easy to degrade the quality of your photo | | | | find this option on your camera. If that doesn't work |
| and make it impossible to enlarge any part of your | | | | take it to a local camera store and see if they can |
| image if you don't know how to work with photo | | | | assist you. |
| editing software. | | | | Other digital camera options that will impact the |
| Rework the copy, not the original | | | | number of photographs you take on your digital |
| Nobody seems to understand resolution or how to | | | | camera is the type of digital image output. Most of you |
| correctly save digital images. If you take one skill away | | | | will take pictures using the JPEG option. You may also |
| from this article it would be-save your original in TIFF or | | | | have TIFF and RAW options. JPEG is the smallest file |
| RAW and do not ever make changes to it. Make a | | | | size but the image degrades every time you use it, |
| copy of the original and work on that. | | | | move it, download it, or save it. The other images are |
| Preserving megapixel and unaltered image data is | | | | larger file sizes so this is the tradeoff. |
| important because UFO investigators like the detail a | | | | If you are serious about taking pictures I recommend |
| high resolution image can give them for research. Also, | | | | shooting in TIFF or RAW. However, before you go into |
| a big controversy in the UFO community is how easily | | | | the field to sky fish practice downloading your TIFF or |
| digital photos can be altered using photo editing | | | | RAW pictures to your computer. RAW pictures |
| software like Photoshop. You may have heard the | | | | require special software and you need to make sure |
| term, "This image was photoshopped." This is where it | | | | you have it. Also, your c: drive will fill up fast. Get an |
| comes from. | | | | external hard drive. |
| Okay, so you got all of that but your images are so big | | | | Once you take pictures with your camera you need to |
| when they are downloaded to the computer they | | | | download them to your computer (or external hard |
| have to be resized to print and they have to be | | | | drive). Once downloaded, you should archive your |
| resized to send to colleagues or they really need to be | | | | images, rename them, and resize them for printing or |
| resized to place on a Web site. | | | | for the Web or to send to family and friends. If you |
| You can still do this with a copy of the original, and you | | | | took pictures in JPEG you should save the original as a |
| should. | | | | TIFF. TIFF is a more structurally stable image file and |
| Change the image quality setting on your digital | | | | will hold up over time. You can shoot RAW with your |
| camera | | | | digital camera but you cannot save a TIFF or JPEG to |
| Let us start at the beginning of the resolution | | | | RAW once you have downloaded your files to your |
| chain-your digital camera. You can't make up resolution. | | | | computer. |
| The resolution is the megapixel you are shooting with | | | | Use good photo editing software and keep image |
| in your digital camera and the higher the resolution the | | | | quality integrity |
| better. | | | | Also, photo editing software is not created equal. The |
| Resolution is described by the quantity of megapixel, | | | | software that came bundled with your camera may |
| and more is better. Megapixel, resolution, is the reason | | | | not give you the options you need. The ability to |
| you bought your digital camera, although you may not | | | | change resolution manually is the reason I believe |
| have known why. | | | | Adobe Photoshop Elements, or CS3 or other |
| It's important to have the highest quality image settings | | | | PhotoShop programs, is a cut above the rest. Most |
| on your digital camera at all times. Find the setting on | | | | Adobe PhotoShop programs allow you to manually |
| your digital camera called image quality, and set it at | | | | resize images but these functions may be in different |
| the highest setting. | | | | locations, however. |
| My 10 megapixel digital SLR Rebel XSI cameras | | | | Resolution recommendations |
| function for image quality is called simply quality. | | | | Resolutions is expressed in dpi (dots per inch) and as a |
| My camera gives me the highest option at 12m | | | | quantity of megapixel. |
| 4247x2848, and the lowest option at 3.4m 2256x | | | | For printing = 300 dpi or higher |
| 1504. I always set my camera on the highest setting | | | | For the Web or to send to family and friends through |
| 12m 4247x2848. Fewer higher quality images are | | | | e-mail = 72 dpi |
| better than a bunch of lower quality images. | | | | Remember, what you see on the screen in Adobe |
| The highest image quality setting means fewer | | | | Photoshop is not the actual size of the picture. |